Order of the Illustrious Dragon

Order Star

The Order was established by imperial edict No. 1 on the day the Manzhou State was proclaimed an empire, March 1, 1934. On April 19, 1934, the law on orders and insignia was adopted, which regulates the issues of the award system.

Since the entire award system of Manzhou-go was a repetition of the award system of Japan, the Order of the Illustrious Dragon was in fact the equivalent of the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun with paulownia flowers .

The Order of the Glorified Dragon existed in one class - with a large ribbon (龍 光大 綬 章) , and was the highest reward of the empire for merits. Top-ranking officials and military men already awarded with orders of the Benevolent clouds and Pillars of the state could be awarded to them.

Sketches of the award were developed by the professor of the Tokyo Higher Technical School Hata Shokichi. Orders for the manufacture of insignia were placed at the mint in Osaka .

From 1934 to 1940, it was known that 33 orders of the Illustrious Dragon were awarded; the total number of awards was not established.

With the fall of imperial power in August 1945, all the awards of the Great Manzhou-th Empire ceased to exist.

The badge of the order - silver gilded, with a diameter of 70 mm, is an eight-pointed multi-beam star. All rays are smooth, the eight shortest rays are covered with light green enamel. A round blue enamel medallion is superimposed on the star’s center, which shows a dragon curving around the blazing Sun, surrounded by six clouds emerging from the edges of the medallion. Around the medallion there are 28 small disks of ruby ​​enamel, symbolizing 28 positions of the moon during the month. On the back of the sign are four hieroglyphs - “勲 功 位 章” (“ reward for merit ”).

A sign through a rectangular bracket on the upper beam is attached to the intermediate link of light green enamel, which is an openwork slotted pentagon, which contains a similar smaller pentagon and a spiral, symbolizing clouds. At the upper end of the intermediate link there is a transverse eyelet with a ring for attaching to the ribbon of the order.

The star of the order is silver gilded, with a diameter of 90 mm, repeating with its appearance the sign of the order. The same characters are applied on the back as on the back of the sign. Worn on the left side of the chest.

The ribbon of the order is silk moire blue with white stripes at the edges. The width of the tape is 106 mm, the width of the stripes along the edges is 18 mm. It was worn over the right shoulder.

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