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Note Description: Japan, Bank of Japan
100 Yen ND (1945) - Wmk: Quatrefoil
Grade: AU 55
Country: JAP
Note Number: JAP78Aa
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 - Block Number 1-43
Certification #: 1610460-011  
Owner: RedWolfWhiteEagle
Sets Competing: Imperial Japan Set #2  Score: 466
Date Added: 1/11/2021
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

Obverse: Imperial Seal of Japan-chrysanthemum blossom (kikukamon)-top center, surrounded by cloud and wind designed. At center is Prince Shotoku (Shotoku Taishi, February 7, 574 – April 8, 622) also known as Prince Umayado (Umayado no ojî) or Prince Kamitsumiya (Kamitsumiya no oji), was a semi-legendary regent and a politician of the Asuka period in Japan who served under Empress Shikoku. He was the son of Emperor Yomei and his consort, Princess Anahobe no Hashihito, who was also Yomei's younger half-sister. His parents were relatives of the ruling Soga clan and also he was involved in the defeat of the rival Mononobe clan. The Prince is renowned for modernizing the government administration and for promoting Buddhism in Japan. Block number 1-43.
Obverse Color: Black on Shaded gray to dull gray-green to gray underprint.
Reverse: Sun symbol top center. At center, Horyu-ji Temple, a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture Japan. Its full name is Horyu Gakumonji, or Learning Temple of the Flourishing Law, the complex serving as both a seminary and monastery. The temple was founded by Prince Shotoku in 607, but according to the Nihon Shoki, in 670 all buildings were burned down by lightning. However, reconstructed at least 1,300 years ago, the Kondo (main hall) is widely recognized as the world's oldest wooden building. All within a frame of stylized flames
Reverse Color: Dark Green
Watermark: Quatrefoil
Issuer: The Japanese Government.
Date of Issue: 1945
Total issue: Unknown

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