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5000 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 2004-2022 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 5000 5000 KQ 247645 H 日本銀行券 五千円 日本銀行 5000 樋口 一葉 KQ 247645 H 国立印刷局製造 (Translation: Bank of Japan note Five thousand yen Bank of Japan Higuchi Ichiyō Manufactured by the National Printing Bureau) |
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| Reverse lettering | 5000YEN NIPPON GINKO 5000 発券局長 |
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The P#105 series was introduced as part of Japan's 2004 comprehensive redesign, the first major overhaul since 1984. One specific engineering decision sets this note apart from most contemporaries: the hologram is pearl-shaped and uses a pearl-like luster finish, a deliberate reference to Japanese aesthetics that also made it technically harder to replicate than the strip holograms common elsewhere at the time.
Japan's National Printing Bureau is among the handful of state printers worldwide that manufactures its own security paper in-house, meaning the substrate and ink chemistry are not independently sourced — a counterfeiting deterrent that never appears in the printed security feature list.