the Medal for Meritとは 意味・読み方・使い方

During the Meiji period, in 1875, awarding of the medals for merit and the medals (next year, the medals were changed to the decoration) was instituted by virtue of the Grand Council Proclamation and the medals for merit were established to indicate the grade of the decoration from the First Order of Merit to the Eighth Order of Merit; and in 1876, the Supreme Order was established as the highest medal for merit by virtue of the imperial edict.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

明治時代に入り、1875年（明治8年）に太政官布告に基づく勲等・賞牌（賞牌は翌年勲章に改称）の制度ができ、勲章の等級として勲等（勲一等から勲八等まで）が制定され、次いで翌1876年（明治9年）に詔書に基づく大勲位が、最上位の勲等として制定された。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

On November 13, 2003, according to the demands for removal of the disparity between public and private for decoration in Japan and for various viewpoints in selecting the recipients, the Decrees of Cabinet were amended so that the medals for merit except for the supreme order, i.e., the grades represented by number, were abolished (but provisions of the amended Decrees of Cabinet still describe the word 'medal for merit,' which means that they merely prohibit the people from declaring the medals for merit and that the concept of the medals for merit still remains.)発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

2003年（平成15年）11月3日以降、日本の勲章の官民格差是正と多角的な観点を求める声に基づいて太政官布告が改正され、大勲位以外の、数字で表現する等級としての勲等は廃止された（ただし、改正後の太政官布告の条文にも引き続き「勲等」の文言があり、表記ができなくなっただけで概念としては残っている）。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

According to the traditional protocol, the court rank and the medal for merit were formally put as the title without the decorations like 'Senior Third Rank, the First Order of Merit, Taro NIPPON,' which was seen as an example in the message of condolence for a member of the Diet read in the Diet.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

肩書として位階と勲等を用いる場合、古くからの儀典の慣例として、「正三位勲一等日本太郎」のように勲章を省くのが正式とされ、たとえば国会議員が死亡した場合の国会での弔詞でもそのような勲章省略の肩書で故人を呼称した。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

Under the new institution, in the message of condolence read in the Diet, the deceased, who was bestowed the medal for merit in the old institution, is addressed without the decoration as in the traditional way; and the deceased, who has been bestowed the decoration in the new institution, is addressed like 'Senior Third Rank, the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, Taro NIPPON has long been contributed to the constitutional government....'発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

が、新制度下の国会弔詞では旧制度叙勲済の死亡者については引き続き旧勲章を省略して従来の呼称方式を用いるのに対し、新制度下で叙勲された死亡者に対しては「正三位旭日大綬章日本太郎君は多年憲政に……」のように呼称している。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス