Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah of Brunei (April 1984) King Birendra of Nepal (1975) Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal (12 April 2001) Ordinary awards of the Collar of the Order of the Chrysanthemum Awards made to living individuals Itō Hirobumi (1 April 1906) Ōyama Iwao (1 April 1906) Yamagata Aritomo (1 April 1906) Katsura Tarō (10 October 1913) Matsukata Masayoshi (14 July 1916) Tōgō Heihachirō (11 November 1926) Saionji Kinmochi (10 November 1928) Posthumous awards Inoue Kaoru (1 September 1915) Tokudaiji Sanetsune (4 June 1919) Ōkuma Shigenobu (10 January 1922) Yamamoto Gonbee (9 December 1933) Shigeru Yoshida (20 October 1967) Eisaku Satō (3 June 1975) Yasuhiro Nakasone (29 November 2019) Shinzō Abe (11 July 2022)* * : Awarded with the Grand Cordon Ordinary awards of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum Awards made to living recipients Sanjō Sanetomi (11 April 1882) Iwakura Tomomi (1 November 1882) Shimazu Hisamitsu (5 November 1887) Nakayama Tadayasu (14 May 1888) Itō Hirobumi (5 August 1895)* Kujō Michitaka (10 May 1900) Ōyama Iwao (3 June 1902)* Saigō Tsugumichi (3 June 1902) Yamagata Aritomo (3 June 1902)* Inoue Kaoru (1 April 1906)⁑ Katsura Tarō (1 April 1906)⁑ Tōgō Heihachirō (1 April 1906)* Tokudaiji Sanetsune (1 April 1906)⁑ Matsukata Masayoshi (1 April 1906)* Nozu Michitsura (6 October 1908) Itō Sukeyuki (10 November 1913) Ōkuma Shigenobu (14 July 1916)⁑ Saionji Kinmochi (21 December 1918)* Ye Wanyong, (February 1926) Oku Yasukata (10 November 1928) Yamamoto Gonbee (10 November 1928)⁑ Shigeru Yoshida (29 April 1964)⁑ Eisaku Satō (3 November 1972)⁑ Yasuhiro Nakasone (29 April 1997)⁑ * : Later awarded the Collar ⁑ : Posthumously awarded the Collar Posthumous awards Kuroda Kiyotaka (25 August 1900) Terauchi Masatake (3 November 1919) Hara Takashi (4 November 1921) Kabayama Sukenori (8 February 1922) Katō Tomosaburō (24 August 1923) Hasegawa Yoshimichi (28 January 1924) Katō Takaaki (28 January 1926) Kawamura Kageaki (28 April 1926) Inoue Yoshika (22 March 1929) Uehara Yūsaku (8 November 1933) Saitō Makoto (26 February 1936) Takahashi Korekiyo (26 February 1936) Tokugawa Iesato (5 June 1940) Kaneko Kentarō (16 May 1942) Kiyoura Keigo (5 November 1942) Isoroku Yamamoto (18 April 1943) Ichiki Kitokurō (17 December 1944) Ichirō Hatoyama (7 March 1959) Hayato Ikeda (13 August 1965) Kōtarō Tanaka (1 March 1974) Masayoshi Ōhira (12 June 1980) Nobusuke Kishi (7 August 1987) Takeo Miki (14 November 1988) Takeo Fukuda (5 July 1995) Keizō Obuchi (14 May 2000) Noboru Takeshita