{"id":93,"date":"2009-06-19T20:07:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T00:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=93"},"modified":"2018-07-27T17:17:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T17:17:47","slug":"japanese-banknotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-banknotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Banknotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boj.or.jp\/en\/type\/list\/yuko\/data\/img\/e01000f.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boj.or.jp\/en\/type\/list\/yuko\/data\/img\/e01000b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>\u00a51000 : is blue in color. One side has Noguchi Hideyo (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u91ce\u53e3 \u82f1\u4e16<\/strong><\/span>). He&#8217;s also Noguchi Seisaku (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u91ce\u53e3\u6e05\u4f5c<\/strong><\/span>). He suffered a burn injury in his childhood, that impacted his decision to become a doctor. Unfortunately, the injury deformed his hand and he was unable to get employment in Japan. He moved to America and did research on the causes of syphilis. He never won the Nobel Prize, but it turns out that he was crucial to figuring out the disease. The other side contains an image of Fuji san\u00a0(<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u5bcc\u58eb\u5c71<\/strong><\/span>) or Mt. Fuji and sakura (<strong>\u3055\u304f\u3089<\/strong>) or cherry blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">\u00a52000 : Is green in color and has shureimon (<strong>\u5b88\u793c\u9580<\/strong>) on one side. Shureimon (<strong>\u5b88\u793c\u9580<\/strong>) is the name of one of the gates of Shurijoo (<strong>\u9996\u91cc\u57ce<\/strong>) or Shuri Castle. Shuri Castle is one of the famous castles in Japan. The other side of the banknote has a portrait of Murasaki Shikibu (<strong><a title=\"\u7d2b\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E7%B4%AB\">\u7d2b<\/a><a title=\"\u5f0f\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E5%BC%8F\">\u5f0f<\/a><a title=\"\u90e8\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E9%83%A8\">\u90e8<\/a><\/strong>). Murasaki Shikibu (<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'\"><a title=\"\u7d2b\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E7%B4%AB\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;font-family: 'MS Mincho';text-decoration: none\"><strong>\u7d2b<\/strong><\/span><\/a><a title=\"\u5f0f\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E5%BC%8F\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;font-family: 'MS Mincho';text-decoration: none\"><strong>\u5f0f<\/strong><\/span><\/a><a title=\"\u90e8\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E9%83%A8\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;font-family: 'MS Mincho';text-decoration: none\"><strong>\u90e8<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>) is the author of Genji Monogatari (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u6e90\u6c0f\u7269\u8a9e<\/strong><\/span>) or the Tale of Genji.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boj.or.jp\/en\/type\/list\/yuko\/data\/img\/e05000f.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boj.or.jp\/en\/type\/list\/yuko\/data\/img\/e05000b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>\u00a55000 : is purple and contains a portrait of Higuchi Ichiyoo (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u6a0b\u53e3 \u4e00\u8449<\/strong><\/span>), also known as Higuchi Natsuko (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u6a0b\u53e3 \u590f\u5b50<\/strong><\/span>). She is considered one of the most prominent female writers in Japan. Her most famous works are Takekurabe (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u305f\u3051\u304f\u3089\u3079<\/strong><\/span>) and Nigorie (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u306b\u3054\u308a\u3048<\/strong><\/span>). She initially wrote to support her family. Little did she know her work would become famous. The other side contains a painting done by Ogata Koorin (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u5c3e\u5f62 \u5149\u7433<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boj.or.jp\/en\/type\/list\/yuko\/data\/img\/e10000b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>\u00a510000 : contains a portrait of Fukuzawa Yukichi (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u798f\u6fa4 \u8aed\u5409<\/strong><\/span>). Fukuzawa is considered one of the founders of modern Japan. He was a progressive, meaning he supported Japan&#8217;s modernization. His lasting contribution to Japanese society came in the form of a newspaper called Jiji Shinpo (<strong>\u6642\u4e8b\u65b0\u5831<\/strong>) or Current Events. His newspaper helped the Japanese people gradually\u00a0embrace change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a51000 : is blue in color. One side has Noguchi Hideyo (\u91ce\u53e3 \u82f1\u4e16). He&#8217;s also Noguchi Seisaku (\u91ce\u53e3\u6e05\u4f5c). He suffered a burn injury in his childhood, that impacted his decision to become a doctor. Unfortunately, the injury deformed his hand and he was unable to get employment in Japan. 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