Japan Paper Money Collection


© Copyright 1995-2009, Clay Irving <clay@panix.com>, Manhattan Beach, CA

Japan Notes

[ Last Update: Sunday, 14-Oct-2012 11:00:55 EDT ]

Bank of Japan

1944 ND Issue

P-53 - 10 Sen
Front: Tower monument at left
Size: 105 x 51 mm


Allied Military Currency After World War II

1945-1951 ND Issue

P-71 - 10 Yen
Front: "B" in underprint
Size: 110 x 67 mm


Bank of Japan

1950-1958 ND Issue

P-90b - 100 Yen
Front: Portrait of Itagaki Taisuke at right
Back: Diet building at right
Size: 148x 76 mm

Count Itagaki Taisuke (21 May 1837- 16 July 1919) was a Japanese politician and leader of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement, which evolved into Japan's first political party.


1993 ND Issue

P-100 - 1000 Yen
Front: Soseki Natsume at right
Back: Two Manchurian cranes
Watermark: Soseki Natsume
Size: 150 x 76 mm

Natsume Soseki (February 9, 1867 - December 9, 1916), born Natsume Kinnosuke, is widely considered to be the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era (1868-1912). He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, Chinese-style poetry, and fairy tales.


2004 ND Issue

P-104b - 1000 Yen Note
Front: Bacteriologist Hideo Noguchi at right
Back: Mt. Fiji
Watermark: Hideo Noguchi
Size: 150 x 76 mm

Hideyo Noguchi (November 24, 1876 - May 21, 1928), also known as Seisaku Noguchi, was a prominent American-based Japanese bacteriologist who discovered the agent of syphilis in 1911.

P-105b - 5000 Yen Note
Front: Ichiyo Higuchi, novelist, at right
Back: Irises, a painting by Korin Ogata
Watermark: Ichiyo Higuchi
Size: 156 x 76 mm

P-106b - 10000 Yen Note
Front: Yukichi Fukuzawa, educator and futurist, at right
Back: Pheonix from Byohdoh-in Temple
Watermark: Yukichi Fukuzawa
Size: 160 x 76 mm