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10 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 1943-1944 |
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| Reference(s) | P#51 |
| Obverse description | Black intaglio printing on brown and light blue underprint, with a portrait vignette of Wake no Kiyomaro positioned at right. Serial number and block number printed in black at upper and lower margins. Issuer inscription and denomination in Japanese characters arranged centrally, with the imprint of the Cabinet Printing Bureau at the base. |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue intaglio vignette of the Goou Jinja Shinto Shrine rendered in fine detail at center, surrounded by an elaborate oval guilloche border with large denomination numeral counters "10" in ornate rosette frames at left and right. The Bank of Japan title inscription appears in Japanese characters at the top, with the denomination "拾圓" (Ten Yen) in a decorative cartouche at the base. The overall design is printed on a pale yellow paper ground with light underprint scrollwork. |
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This note belongs to the wartime "B-yen" series, issued as Japan's economy was under severe strain from Pacific theater costs. Paper quality deteriorated noticeably across the 1943–1944 run as raw material shortages hit the Cabinet Printing Bureau directly — later printings within the series show measurably thinner, more brittle stock than earlier ones, and surviving examples frequently exhibit foxing and edge fragility for that reason rather than through rough handling.
The watermark remained, but it was a diminishing security gesture by this point. Counterfeiting pressure from Allied psychological warfare operations was already a known concern to Japanese monetary authorities in this period.