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10 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Currency | Yen (1871-date) |
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| Obverse description | Oval intaglio vignette at left centre bearing a portrait of Wakeno Kiyomaro in traditional court attire, with an elaborate guilloche scroll underprint at centre surrounding the large kanji denomination 拾圓. A vignette of the Goo Shrine appears at lower right, flanked by ornamental borders. The Bank of Japan title inscription 日本銀行 appears in vertical kanji at upper centre, with serial numbers printed in two positions and check letters within brackets. |
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| Reverse lettering | 日本銀行兌換券 拾圓 Nippon Ginko Promises to Pay the Bearer on Demand Ten Yen in Gold. |
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This is the second issue of the Bank of Japan's 10 Yen note, produced during Japan's economic expansion accelerated by World War One — a period when European demand for Japanese manufactured goods drove significant growth and placed real pressure on the currency supply. The Cabinet Printing Bureau, operating under the Finance Ministry rather than the Bank of Japan itself, handled production throughout this series.
P#36 is notably scarcer than its successor issues, partly because the volume printed was relatively modest and partly because circulated examples suffered badly from Japan's humid climate, which is hard on cotton-based paper.