page_title: Order of Culture
section_title: Selected recipients
hierarchical_section_title: Order of Culture / Selected recipients
caption_attribution_description: Shun'ichi Iwasaki, Director of Tohoku Institute of Technology, Gōichi Oda, actor, Ikuta Takagi, chirographer, Susumu Nakanishi, Director of Toyama Prefectural Koshi no Kuni Museum of Literature, and Tasuku Honjo, President of Shizuoka Prefectural Public University Corporation, received the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda Ward, Tōkyō Metropolis on November 3, 2013. After that they posed for photo with Shinzō Abe, Prime Minister, at the East Garden of the Imperial Palace.(For terms of use, see 内閣府ホームページ利用規約 - 内閣府.)
context_page_description: The Order of Culture is a Japanese order, established on February 11, 1937. The order has one class only, and may be awarded to men and women for contributions to Japan's art, literature, science, technology, or anything related to culture in general; recipients of the order also receive an annuity for life. The order is conferred by the Emperor of Japan in person on Culture Day each year.
  The badge of the order, which is in gold with white enamel, is in the form of a Tachibana orange blossom; the central disc bears three crescent-shaped jades. The badge is suspended on a gold and enamel wreath of mandarin orange leaves and fruit, which is in turn suspended on a purple ribbon worn around the neck.
context_section_description: A complete list can be found here.
  Akira Ifukube (1914–2006). A composer of classical music and film scores.
  Ryukichi Inada (1874–1950). A physician, a prominent academic, and bacteriologist researcher.
  Hideo Kobayashi (1902–1983). An author, who established literary criticism as an independent art form in Japan.
  Hantaro Nagaoka (1865–1950). A physicist and a pioneer of Japanese physics in the early Meiji period.
  Nakamura Kichiemon I (1896–1954). 1st kabuki actor to receive this honor.
  Nakamura Utaemon VI (1917–2001). A famous kabuki actor, known for his oyama roles.
  Kaii Higashiyama (1908–1999). A famous artist and writer, renowned for his Nihonga style paintings.
  Kinjiro Okabe (1896–1984). An electrical engineering researcher and professor who developed the split-anode magnetron.
  Jirō Osaragi (1897–1973). A popular writer in Shōwa period.
  Junjiro Takakusu (1866–1945). An academic, an advocate for expanding higher education opportunities, and an internationally known Buddhist scholar.
  Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899–1990). A pioneer in the development of television.
  Morohashi Tetsuji (1883–1982). An important figure in the world of Japanese studies and Sinology.
  Susumu Tonegawa (born 1939). A scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987.
  Eiji Yoshikawa (1892–1962). A historical novelist.
caption: From left to right: Tasuku Honjo, Susumu Nakanishi, Ikuta Takagi, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, Shun-ichi Iwasaki, and Ken Takakura
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