The Order of the Rising Sun (旭日章 , "Kyokujitsu-shō" ) is a Japanese order, established in 1875 by Emperor Meiji of Japan.
 The Order was the first national decoration awarded by the Japanese government, created on 10 April 1875 by decree of the Council of State.
 The badge features rays of sunlight from the rising sun.
 The design of the Rising Sun symbolizes energy as powerful as the rising sun in parallel with the "rising sun" concept of Japan ("Land of the Rising Sun").
Egi Kazuyuki (May 21, 1853 – August 23, 1932) was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture in 1898–1903.
 He was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
 He was also governor of Ibaraki Prefecture (1896–1897), Tochigi Prefecture (1897), Aichi Prefecture (1897–1898) and Kumamoto Prefecture (1903–1907).
 He was a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun (4th class, 1896; 2nd class, 1902; 1st class, 1906) and the Order of the Sacred Treasure (4th class, 1895; 3rd class, 1899) as well as being a member of the French Legion of Honour (joined 1901).
Akira Yoshizawa (吉澤 章 "Yoshizawa Akira"; 14 March 1911 – 14 March 2005) was a Japanese origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami.
 He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art.
 According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were presented as diagrams in his 18 books.
 Yoshizawa acted as an international cultural ambassador for Japan throughout his career.
 In 1983, Emperor Hirohito awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun, 5th class, one of the highest honors bestowed in Japan.
Olga Pavlovna Frolova (Chernykh) / Russian: Óльга Пáвловна Фролóва (Черны́х) (born 1931, Manchuria, Northeast China) — is a Russian orientalist who wrote her major works on the Japanese and Chinese linguistics.
 She is a professor and a public figure.
 She received such State Rewards as the Order of the Rising Sun (4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette) in 2007, The Order of Merit for the Fatherland (2nd Class) in 2010, etc.
 At present she is the head of the Oriental Branch at the Foreign Languages Department of Novosibirsk State University (NSU).
Ōgimachi Sanemasa (Japanese: 正親町実正 ) (July 20, 1855 – June 26, 1923) was a Japanese pharmacist and politician.
 He was Grand Chamberlain of Japan (1919–1922).
 He was the 10th governor of Saitama Prefecture (1899–1900).
 He was a recipient of the Order of the Sacred Treasure.
 He was made an earl in 1884, a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class in 1906, a recipient of the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1910 and a recipient of the World War I Victory Medal in 1915.
Hirohito (裕仁 , April 29, 1901 – January 7, 1989) was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death.
 He was succeeded by his eldest son, Akihito.
 In Japan, he is now referred to primarily by his posthumous name, Emperor Shōwa (昭和天皇 , Shōwa-tennō ) .
 The word "Shōwa" is the name of the era that corresponded with the Emperor's reign, and was made the Emperor's own name upon his death.
 The name Hirohito means "abundant benevolence".
The Order of the Paulownia Flowers (桐花章 , Tōka shō ) is an order presented by the Japanese government.
 Established in 1888 during the Meiji Restoration as the highest award in the Order of the Rising Sun; however, since 2003 it has been an Order in its own right.
 The only grade of the order is "Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers" (旭日桐花大綬章 , Kyokujitsu tōka daijushō ) , which ranks higher than the Order of the Rising Sun but lower than the Order of the Chrysanthemum.
Kenneth B. Pyle (born April 20, 1936 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) is a Japan historian and professor of History and International Studies at the University of Washington Seattle campus.
 Since earning his Ph. D. in Japanese History from Johns Hopkins University in 1965, he has become a major figure in the area of Japan studies, publishing several books on Japan and its international relations, and serving as the first editor of the "Journal of Japanese Studies" from 1974 to 1986.
 In 1998, the Japanese government awarded Pyle with the Order of the Rising Sun, and in 2008 he received the Japan Foundation Award for Japanese Studies.
Rising Sun is an unincorporated community located in Leflore County, Mississippi.
 Rising Sun is approximately 2 mi south of Greenwood and 5 mi north of Sidon on U.S. Route 49E .
 Some citizens refer to the area north of Rising Sun near the Hwy 82 and Hwy 49E intersection in Greenwood as being Rising Sun but the area is known as Craigside.
Shūgorō Nakazato (仲里 周五郎 , Nakazato Shūgorō , August 14, 1920 – August 24, 2016) was a Japanese martial artist.
 Described as a "one punch artist" by some of his American students, Nakazato developed his karate sparring into "a fine fighting art".
 He gave many demonstrations in Japan as well as abroad and had "many well-known students in the USA", Nakazato was designated as an "intangible cultural asset holder" by Okinawa Prefecture in 2000.
 He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, 5th Class with Gold and Silver Rays on November 4, 2007.

Question: Akira Yoshizawa was given the Order of the Rising Sun, 5th class, award by Hirohito during what era in Japanese history?
Answer: Shōwa