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Hokusai's 'Great Wave' features on new Japanese banknotes (2019)
Famous woodblock print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” will feature on a Japanese banknote for the first time, in one of three new designs unveiled Tuesday by the country’s finance ministry.
Famous woodblock print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” will feature on a Japanese banknote for the first time, in one of three new designs unveiled Tuesday by the country’s finance ministry. The new 10,000-yen ($90) bill, currently the highest denomination in circulation, will feature Eiichi Shibusawa, an industrialist who helped modernize Japan’s economy and is often dubbed “the father of Japanese capitalism.” One of Tokyo Station’s historic red-brick facades will appear on the note’s reverse. Kitasato, Tsuda and Shibusawa will join bacteriologist Noguchi Hideyo and the authors Higuchi Ichiyo and Fukuzawa Yukichi as portraits on Japanese currency, with the latter’s image appearing on the 10,000-yen bill since 1984.
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