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First – this mutilated golden kite 5th class (type 7).
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From time to time you could see sacred treasure, rising sun and golden kite orders without ribbons and with strange looking pins on their reverses. What is this? Who did it? What for? We will begin our discussion with a little display of such converted specimens.
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This type was issued by right-wing patriotic organization in late 70s - early 80s. The main reason for creation of this vintage - 35 anniversary of Pacific War. I think that no less than 100 000 and no more than 1 000 000 pieces were issued. Not very precise estimates ... :lol:
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Nice full set! I believe this one is from 1980 anniversary vintage. Congrats!
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Yes.. This different writing styles could be tricky .... Thanks for info Rich! Nick
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Hmmm. I wonder how many different kanjis is in use for one prefecture name.... Nope...The photos of reverses were mixed up in posts 107-108. My bad. Cheers Rich :cheers:
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That`s all for today. Cheers, Nick
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And another interesting example of wound association badge (unidentified).
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But not only prefectures but sometimes city-level branches and even factory-level branches issued their own wound badges. Like this beautiful Nakajima company badge.
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And this prefecture badge central kanji (we saw this specimen number 259 in previous appendix) reads just “member”. That’s it.
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Same story with this unidentified badge.
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Only right badge could be identified (this is Hyogo prefecture badge).
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Yamaguchi (Yamanashi?) prefecture badge.
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Let’s take a close look at some examples of second variation badges.
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part 2
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part 1
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But why we have second variation with kanji-center? Maybe this is because many prefecture emblems were created only in the late 70s and creators of the badges had no option other than to use kanji? Here comes the name list of all 47 prefectures. I hope it will help our colleagues to identify some prefecture badges of second variation.
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And now Oita prefecture badge.
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Let’s take a close look at some examples of first variation badges. We will start with this beautiful Aichi prefecture badge.
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Additional information (and color versions of these emblems for prefectures flags) can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefectures_of_Japan
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I hope that this compact chart of all 47 prefectures emblems will make the process of identification of first variation badges easier for our colleagues.
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Now let’s go back to the wound badges issued by different prefectures. Basically there are two variations of prefecture badges 1) badges with prefecture emblem in the center of the obverse 2) badges with prefecture kanji in the center of the obverse Usually both variations have stamped numbers on reverse.
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And here we have executive badge with same kind of attachment, but marked “pure silver”.
