help on Admirals of Fleet decorations

[Alexandre]

Hello Gentlemen,

Im trying to identificate the decorations of these 3 men:

Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi

Mineiche Koga

Osami Nagano

attached 3 pics to help in identification, anyone can help me ??

Thx in advance

Regards

(pictures from Wikipedia)

Edited October 23, 2007 by Alexandre

[fjcp]

1st pic orders:

top: Grand Cordon of the supreme order of the Chrysanthemum

mid: Grand Cordon of the order of the rising sun with pawlonia flowers... ( sash belongs to this order)

bottom: 1st or 2nd class breast star of the Order of the sacred treasure.

Medals:

1:Order golden kite 5th

2:1894-95 war medal

3:1900 Boxer rebellion medal (I think, but there are options)

4:Should be the 1904-5 medal but it doesn't look right.

5:Red cross order of merit

6:REd cross membership medal

2nd pic.

1st is 4th class rising sun

4th is 1894-5 medal

2nd last is Manchukuo national foundation medal (he's old so this could be I guess)

last could be Manchukuo Imperial visit to Japan medal

3rd pic last medal is Manchukuo Imperial visit to Japan medal

I hope this helps and I hope I'm right...

JC

[Alexandre]

Thx

Help me a lot

Regards

[Ed_Haynes]

Have you seen Peterson's book (in any edition)???

[Alexandre]

Hello ED,

I dont saw this book.

here in Brazil is very dificult to have access to good books about Japan Militaria

Regards