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10 000 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio and offset print on a guilloche underprint incorporating repeating '10000' numerals and sakura cherry blossom motifs; a front-facing portrait vignette of Shibusawa Eiichi is positioned at right, with denomination rendered in Arabic numerals at centre, in kanji at upper centre, and at lower right, accompanied by the seal of the Governor of the Bank of Japan below the central numeral. A vertical security stripe at left incorporates a 3D holographic portrait of Shibusawa Eiichi — whose facing shifts with viewing angle — over sakura and Mount Fuji imagery, with '10000' at the stripe's base; four EURion constellation clusters are distributed across the face, and a cartouche at lower centre bearing two sakura blossoms contains a latent image of '10000' visible at a low viewing angle. Additional security elements include pearl ink panels at the centre-left and centre-right edges that fluoresce pink at oblique angles, eleven tactile intaglio slanted bars aligned vertically on each lateral edge, and 'NIPPONGINKO' microtext upper-left of the lower-right denomination; the serial number follows the format of two Latin letters, six digits, and two Latin letters. |
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| Obverse lettering | 壱円 日本銀行券 AA000000AA 10000 日本銀行 Bank of Japan 之総 渋沢 栄一 印裁 AA000000AA 10000 国立印刷局製造 (Translation: 10000 yen Bank of Japan note Bank of Japan Shibusawa Eiichi Seal of the Governor Manufactured by the National Printing Bureau) |
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Japan's first major banknote redesign in twenty years, this series introduced 3D hologram technology new to Japanese currency — a rotating image embedded into the note face rather than the flat foil strips used on predecessor issues. The National Printing Bureau developed the application domestically. Circulation began in July 2024, ending the long run of the previous 10,000-yen design that had been essentially unchanged since 2004.
The tactile marks along the short edges were reconfigured from the prior series to aid visually impaired users in distinguishing denominations — a revision driven by accessibility advocacy groups that had lobbied the Ministry of Finance for over a decade.