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5 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 1943-1944 |
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| Printer | Cabinet Printing Bureau (内閣印刷局) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sugawara no Michizane at left, with the Imperial Seal of Japan at centre. A vignette of the main prayer hall of Kitano Tenman-gu Shinto shrine in Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, occupies the right portion of the note. Issuer and denomination inscriptions are rendered in classical Japanese characters, with serial numbers and printing authority legend at the borders. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 262359 {71} 5 券行銀本日 日 本 五 銀 圓 行 5 {71} 262359 5 造幣局刷印閣内 (Translation: Bank of Japan Note Five Yen Bank of Japan Cabinet Printing Bureau) |
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Chiossone died in 1898, nearly half a century before this note was issued, but the Bank of Japan had been relying on his engraved designs since the Meiji period — the plates were simply reused and adapted long after his death. An Italian employed by the Meiji government in 1875 to modernize Japan's printing and engraving capabilities, Chiossone trained an entire generation of Japanese engravers before dying in Yokohama.
The 1943–44 dating reflects wartime austerity pressures on paper and ink supply, and the Cabinet Printing Bureau was managing increasing material shortages by this point in the Pacific War.