showa enthronement attendant’s badge

"Persons with Equivalent Treatment to High-Ranking Officials"/"高等官同待遇者" refer to individuals in pre-war Japan (under the Meiji Constitution) who, while not officially holding the status of "high-ranking officials/高等官" (i.e. Sōninkan and above) received treatment equivalent to that of...

Silver, enamel. Size 36 x 48 mm. Weight 25.21 g. These badges were intendend for the high-ranking officials. Under Meiji constitutional law, the term "imperial appointee"/chokuninkan indicated a senior governmental official from the second class or higher, who had been invested by imperial...