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10 Yen
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 1944-1945 |
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| Printer | Cabinet Printing Bureau (内閣印刷局) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Wake no Kiyomaro at right, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint of floral scrollwork in pink, green and olive tones. A large dark chrysanthemum rosette vignette with the numeral 10 occupies the left field, flanked by ornate lathe-work borders; two red seal stamps appear in the lower centre, with the imperial chrysanthemum crest at top centre. The bank title in kanji (日本銀行券) runs across the upper register, with the denomination 拾圓 in large characters at centre, and block number in red appearing at upper left and lower right. |
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| Variants | P#56a - watermark: and (10) repeated P#56b - watermark: circles (Bank of Japan logo) P#56c - watermark: leaves |
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This note belongs to the wartime "B-yen" series issued as Japan's military and economic position deteriorated sharply. By 1944, the Cabinet Printing Bureau was operating under severe material constraints — paper quality declined noticeably across the series, and the ink formulations shifted as imported supplies became inaccessible. Notes from the final months of production show measurable differences in paper weight and print registration compared to earlier runs.
Postwar Allied occupation authorities demonetized the wartime yen series in 1946. Enormous quantities were surrendered and destroyed, which paradoxically makes heavily circulated survivors more historically legible than uncirculated ones.