J010458 CASED 1904-1905 RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR MEDAL. The 1 3/16" diameter medal, in gold-colored alloy, features, to its obverse, two crossed Rising Sun flags (for the Army and Navy) above Paulownia flowers and leaves and beneath a sixteen-petaled Imperial Chrysanthemum. To its reverse is a Samurai shield with a column of kanji characters to it reading "Meiji era 37th-8th Years War" (1904-05), with a sprig of laurel leaves to the right and a sprig of palm leaves to the left. This medal, established in March of 1906, commemorates the conflict between Japan and Russia, during the aforementioned dates, for the control of Manchuria, Korea, and points in northern China. A swiveling hanger is connected to its top, which is itself then connected to a swiveling horizontal bar, through which the ribbon is looped. To the face of the bar is embossed a row of four kanji characters, translating to "War Medal." The 1 7/16" wide, watered silk ribbon’s vertical bands are narrow white-wide blue/green-wide navy blue-wide blue/green-narrow white. An elongated, vertical alloy hook is to its top, which folds down and mates with an alloy eye sewn near the base of its reverse. The ribbon exhibits light to moderate age soiling, although the medal itself is only lightly age soiled. They are nested into corresponding depressions to the red flocked interior base of its original presentation case. The flocking is lightly to moderately nap worn, but retains its color. The 2 1/4" x 4 3/16" x 7/8" softwood case, which separates along its sides, has a column of gold kanji characters stamped to its cover, which are repetitions of those seen to the reverse of the medal. The exterior of the case is noticeably age soiled and has some edge wear to its cover.

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