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10 000 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 2004-2022 |
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| Size | 160 × 76 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio and offset print on a complex guilloche underprint; portrait vignette of FUKUZAWA Yukichi in three-quarter bust facing slightly left, positioned to the right of centre, with the denomination in Kanji characters at left centre and the Bank of Japan Governor's seal at lower left. A kinegram hologram at lower left cycles through the denomination numerals '10000', the Bank of Japan emblem surrounded by sakura cherry blossoms, and repeated 'NIPPON' legends depending on viewing angle; EURion constellation elements appear at upper left and upper right of the central watermark window, with a latent image rendering '10000' visible at low viewing angles below the red seal, tactile L-shaped and reversed-L-shaped raised marks at the lower corners, and left and right edges finished with optically variable ink exhibiting a pink iridescence at oblique angles. Microtext reading 'NIPPONGINKO' runs in repeated bands behind the Kanji denomination and below the upper-right numeral, with additional microtext lines of '10000', 'NIPPON', and 'GINKO' behind the lower serial number panel; serial numbers consist of one or two Latin alphabet prefix letters, six digits, and one Latin alphabet suffix letter. |
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| Reverse lettering | NIPPON GINKO 10000 10000 YEN |
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Japan's National Printing Bureau developed this note's paper specification domestically — the blend of mitsumata fiber and Manila abacá was chosen not for tradition alone but because the combination produces a tactile and acoustic quality (that distinctive rustle) that Japanese users and counterfeit-detection machines had been calibrated to expect over decades. Mitsumata has been cultivated in Japan specifically for high-grade paper since the Edo period.
The hologram strip on P#106 was among the more technically advanced deployed by any central bank at time of issue, incorporating a three-dimensional element that proved significantly harder to replicate than the flat foil patches common elsewhere in 2004.