Order of the Holy Treasure

The Order of the Sacred Treasure ( Jap. 瑞宝章 , Zuihōshō , English. Order of the Sacred Treasure ), also orders the mirror or the Order of the Sacred Treasure called, is a Japanese order, which by on January 4, 1888 Emperor Meiji was donated.

The order is divided into six classes; It can be awarded for long or special services in both the military and civilian sectors. The award was given to the army and navy as well as to civil servants of equal status. The award was graded according to rank and often presupposed the holder of the order in a certain previous order class. Being a bearer of the Order of the Rising Sun in a certain class was also a possible requirement for the award. Foreigners, such as consuls , envoys and embassy staff who had worked in Japan for several years, could receive the medal. The prerequisite for being awarded the Grand Cross (first class) is fulfilled by senior officers and civil servants in the army and navy, as well as civil servants in the same position, envoys and ministers. In addition, the distinguished persons must be holders of the Order of the Rising Sun in 2nd class. Originally reserved for men only, since 1919 the order can also be awarded to women. In contrast to its European counterparts, the Order of the Sacred Treasure can also be awarded posthumously.

Order classes

#	from 2003			before 2003			English	European view
#	Surname	Kanji	translation	Surname	Kanji	translation	English	European view
1.	Zuihō daijushō	瑞宝大綬章	big ~ on the tape	Kun-it-tō zuihōshō	勲一等瑞宝章	1st class of merit, ~	Grand Cordon of the ~	Grand Cross
2.	Zuihō jūkōshō	瑞宝重光章	multicolored ~	Kun-ni-tō zuihōshō	勲二等瑞宝章	2nd class of merit, ~	~, Gold and Silver Star	Grand Officer
3.	Zuihō chūjushō	瑞宝中綬章	middle ~	Kun-san-tō zuihōshō	勲三等瑞宝章	3rd class of merit, ~	~, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon	commander
4th	Zuihō shōjushō	瑞宝小綬章	smaller ~ on the tape	Kun-yon-tō zuihōshō	勲四等瑞宝章	4th grade of merit, ~	~, Gold Rays with Rosette	officer
5.	Zuihō sōkōshō	瑞宝双光章	two-tone ~	Kun-go-tō zuihōshō	勲五等瑞宝章	5th grade of merit, ~	~, Gold and Silver Rays	Knight 1st class
6th	Zuihō tankōshō	瑞宝単光章	monochrome ~	Kun-roku-tō zuihōshō	勲六等瑞宝章	6th merit class, ~	~, Silver Rays	Knight II class
7th	abolished			Kun-nana-tō zuihōshō	勲七等瑞宝章	7th merit class, ~	~, Gold Medal	Decoration of honor 1st class
8th.	abolished			Kun-hachi-tō zuihōshō	勲八等瑞宝章	8th grade of merit, ~	~, Silver Medal	Decoration of honor II class

old order 6th grade
case
front
back
Buttonhole miniature, front
Buttonhole miniature, side view

Strap buckles

1st Class
2nd Class
3rd grade
4th grade
5th grade
6th grade
7th grade
8th grade

Design and way of carrying

The order bears symbols of the throne insignia of Japan : the mirror Yata no kagami , the gemstone Yasakani no Magatama and the sword Kusanagi .

The medal of the 1st to 6th grade is a Maltese cross in gold (1st to 4th grade), gold and silver (5th grade) or silver (6th grade), with white enamelled rays that represent the sword . The central disc is blue with an eight-pointed star for the mirror surrounded by a wreath of red-enameled dots for the gemstone. The medal hangs on a light blue ribbon with yellow stripes on the edges.

The 1st grade is worn as a sash on the right shoulder, the 2nd and 3rd grade for men as a collar and the 4th to 6th grade on the left chest (with the ribbon folded as a triangle). Women wear the ribbon in the form of a bow on the left shoulder. The 4th grade belt also has a rosette .

The 1st and 2nd class star is similar to the medal, except that it is shaped like two Maltese crosses, one in gold and the other diagonally in silver. The 1st class star is worn on the left and the 2nd class on the right breast.

The colors of the rays of the religious character, the shape of the belt and the carrying method for each class are similar to the Order of the Rising Sun .

Changes made in 2003

Until 2003, orders of the 7th and 8th grade were also awarded, the medal of which was an octagonal silver medal - the 7th grade was partially gold-plated - with representations of the mirror and the precious stone. They are worn like those in the 4th to 6th grade.

In addition, all orders changed the color of the ribbon from white with two yellow stripes to indigo with two yellow stripes .

Known recipients

1st class: Charles Alexander Anderson , Akabori Shirō , Arisaka Nariakira , George Edward Gauntlett (Japanese Ganto Tadashi), Hayashi Senjūrō , Ibuka Masaru , Akio Morita , Renato Ruggiero , Rudolf Sallinger , Satō Naotake , Otto Schniewind , Julius Scriba , Hamao Umezawa , Oda Yorozu , Tōjō Hideki
2nd class: Sakıp Sabancı , Iriye Akira , James Harold Elmsley , George Edward Gauntlett , Konrad Ernst von Goßler , Werner Köster , Ikuo Kushiro , Murata Akira , Johannis de Rijke , Alexander von Siebold , Heinrich Georg Stahmer , Eugene P. Wilkinson
3rd grade: Peter Drucker , Max Fesca , Carl Fraenkel , Fukushima Yasumasa , George Edward Gauntlett , Ernst Heinkel , Akira Ifukube , Otsuma Kotaka , Isamu Noguchi , Tadahiro Sekimoto , Katō Shūson , Uno Chiyo , Shinya Inoué , Bruno Lewin , Karl Emil Kirchner , Friedrich Wilhelm Höhn
4th grade: Rudi Müller , Herbert Keppler , Keiko Fukuda , Beate Sirota , Helmut Laumer , Hermann Bohner
Unknown class: Hans-Günther Sohl , Carl Caelius , Hans-Olaf Henkel , Bernhard Rogge , Heinrich Hertz , Toyohiko Kagawa , Thomas Noguchi , Rolf Anschütz

Individual evidence

^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 17. Leipzig 1909, p. 705.
↑ Maximilian Gritzner: Handbook of the knight and merit orders of all civilized states of the world within the XIX. Century
↑ 赤堀四郎 (あかほりしろう) . (No longer available online.) Kakegawa, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 28, 2011 (Japanese). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2
↑ ^a ^b ^c 旧・勲一等瑞宝章受章者一覧 (戦前の部) . The Nakano Library, accessed September 15, 2010 (Japanese).
↑ James Kirkup: Obituary: Masaru Ibuka. In: Independent. (London) December 22, 1997.
↑ Rudolf Salliger. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: WKO.at. Austrian Chamber of Commerce, p. 2 , archived from the original on September 30, 2007 ; Retrieved November 17, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wko.at
↑ Ikuo Kushiro Receives One of Japan's Highest Awards for Public Service. (No longer available online.) Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory, formerly the original ; accessed on September 9, 2010 (English). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gl.ciw.edu
^ VADM Eugene P. “Dennis” Wilkinson (retired). US Navy Submarine Force Museum, accessed January 15, 2007 .
^ The Drucker Institute Archives, Claremont, California, Box 8, Folder 7. Retrieved November 8, 2012 .
↑ Entry on Carl Fraenkel in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)
↑ Biography of E. Heinkel. In: Heinkel works in Germany. Retrieved February 20, 2012 .
^ Rebecca L. Copeland: The Sound of the Wind. The Life and Works of Uno Chiyo . University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1992, ISBN 0-8248-1409-6 , pp. 78 ( online ).
↑ Shinya Inoué Honored by the Government of Japan at mbl.edu; accessed on January 11, 2017.
↑ Bruno Lewin's curriculum vitae on the website of the Language and Literature section of Japan at the Ruhr University Bochum.
↑ According to information from the Japanese Cabinet Office by email dated April 10, 2019 on behalf of Beate Wonde (curator of the Mori-Ôgai memorial )
↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) In: dsj.de@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.dsj.de
↑ Government of Japan to honor Mr. Herbert Keppler and Professor Rustum Roy ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ 5th grade: 1934, 4th grade: 1954 "> Hermann Bohner: Works and publications concerning East Asia
↑ Articles L'ORDRE DU TRÉSOR SACRÉ (JAPON) - 88 autres titulaires, Jean-Marie Thiébaud. In: editions-harmattan.fr. December 2007, accessed December 31, 2014 .
↑ Thomas T. Noguchi, MD (No longer available online.) The Cyrill H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law, archived from the original on July 16, 2011 ; accessed on March 3, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Claudia Götze: Imperial order for German gourmet temples . In: Saxon newspaper . April 14, 2000, p. 6 .

literature

James W. Peterson, Barry C. Weaver, Michael A. Quigley: Orders and Medals of Japan and Associated States (= Orders and Medals Society of America. Monograph. Volume 1). 3. Edition. Orders and Medals Society of America, San Ramon CA 2000, ISBN 1-890974-09-9 .

Web links

Commons : Order of the Sacred Treasure - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Side of the Japanese Cabinet to Order of the Sacred Treasure (English)
Page of the Japanese cabinet on the old Order of the Sacred Treasure ( Memento from December 3, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) (Japanese, English)
Jean-Marie Thiébaud: L'Ordre du Trésor sacré (Japon). In: Editions L'Harmattan. L'Harmattan, December 2007, accessed July 27, 2009 (French). - List of 88 award winners
List of Japanese medals of the highest class: before May 3, 1947 , after and since 2003 (Japanese)

[1] Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 17. Leipzig 1909, p. 705.

[2] Maximilian Gritzner: Handbook of the knight and merit orders of all civilized states of the world within the XIX. Century

[3] 赤堀四郎 (あかほりしろう) . (No longer available online.) Kakegawa, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 28, 2011 (Japanese). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2

[Nakanolib,_1.,_vor_Kriegsende-4] 旧・勲一等瑞宝章受章者一覧 (戦前の部) . The Nakano Library, accessed September 15, 2010 (Japanese).

[kirkup-5] James Kirkup: Obituary: Masaru Ibuka. In: Independent. (London) December 22, 1997.

[6] Rudolf Salliger. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: WKO.at. Austrian Chamber of Commerce, p. 2 , archived from the original on September 30, 2007 ; Retrieved November 17, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wko.at

[7] Ikuo Kushiro Receives One of Japan's Highest Awards for Public Service. (No longer available online.) Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory, formerly the original ; accessed on September 9, 2010 (English). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gl.ciw.edu

[8] VADM Eugene P. “Dennis” Wilkinson (retired). US Navy Submarine Force Museum, accessed January 15, 2007 .

[9] The Drucker Institute Archives, Claremont, California, Box 8, Folder 7. Retrieved November 8, 2012 .

[10] Entry on Carl Fraenkel in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)

[11] Biography of E. Heinkel. In: Heinkel works in Germany. Retrieved February 20, 2012 .

[12] Rebecca L. Copeland: The Sound of the Wind. The Life and Works of Uno Chiyo . University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1992, ISBN 0-8248-1409-6 , pp. 78 ( online ).

[13] Shinya Inoué Honored by the Government of Japan at mbl.edu; accessed on January 11, 2017.

[14] Bruno Lewin's curriculum vitae on the website of the Language and Literature section of Japan at the Ruhr University Bochum.

[15] According to information from the Japanese Cabinet Office by email dated April 10, 2019 on behalf of Beate Wonde (curator of the Mori-Ôgai memorial )

[16] ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) In: dsj.de@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.dsj.de

[17] Government of Japan to honor Mr. Herbert Keppler and Professor Rustum Roy ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[18] 5th grade: 1934, 4th grade: 1954 "> Hermann Bohner: Works and publications concerning East Asia

[19] Articles L'ORDRE DU TRÉSOR SACRÉ (JAPON) - 88 autres titulaires, Jean-Marie Thiébaud. In: editions-harmattan.fr. December 2007, accessed December 31, 2014 .

[20] Thomas T. Noguchi, MD (No longer available online.) The Cyrill H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law, archived from the original on July 16, 2011 ; accessed on March 3, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[21] Claudia Götze: Imperial order for German gourmet temples . In: Saxon newspaper . April 14, 2000, p. 6 .