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1000 Yen black, blue serial
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 1984-1993 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of the novelist Natsume Sōseki (born Kinnosuke Natsume) in three-quarter view at right, set within an oval vignette against a multicolour guilloche ground. At centre-left, an elaborate rosette underprint frames the kanji denomination 千円 within a medallion, below which the Bank of Japan's red seal is applied. The issuer legend 日本銀行券 appears in kanji across the upper centre, with the serial number printed twice in blue and the printer's imprint 大蔵省印刷局製造 along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Two Manchurian cranes (red-crowned cranes) in full wingspan occupy the centre of the design against a pale multicolour guilloche background. The Bank of Japan logo appears to the left, with the bilingual issuer inscription and the numeral denomination rendered in intaglio. Fine lathe-work borders frame the composition on all sides. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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