1000 Yen

Features

Issuer	Japan
Issuing bank	Bank of Japan (日本銀行)
Emperor	Reiwa (2019-date)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Year	2024
Value	1000 Yen 1000 JPY = USD 7.04
Currency	Yen (1871-date)
Composition	Paper
Size	150 × 76 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Issued	3 July 2024
Number	N# 385520
References	P# 107 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (5 volumes). , TBB# 368 Owen W. Linzmayer. The Banknote Book (4 volumes). , JNDA# 11-88 Japan Numismatic Dealers Association (publisher). 日本貨幣カタログ. Japan Numismatic Dealers Association, Tokyo, Japan (37 volumes).

Series: F series

Obverse

Multicolour print (2 main colours and 9 background colours); red seal; black serial numbers.
Bust of physician and bacteriologist KITASATO Shibasaburō at the right. Denomination in Arabic numerals at the left. Denomination in Kanji on top-left corner, and in Arabic numerals on bottom-right corner. Multiple '1000' on the background.
Head of KITASATO Shibasaburō in 3D hologram patch at the lower left, which facing can change by angle of view. Seal of the Governor of the Bank of Japan to the right, printed with luminescent ink, which fluoresce yellow under ultraviolet light. EURion constellations on upper-left, upper-right, and lower right of the center window, and another one upper-right of the main portrait. Tactile 11 slanted bars on the upper-right corner, and another on the bottom-left corner. “NIPPONGINKO” in microtext hidden in guilloché background above bottom-right denomination numerals. Serial numbers consist of two Latin alphabets, following by 6-digits number, then two Latin alphabets.

Scripts: Chinese (traditional, regular script), Chinese (traditional, seal script), Latin

Lettering:
千円　　　　　日本銀行券
　　AA502051NR
　　1000
　　　　日本銀行
　　　Bank of Japan
　　　之総　　　　　　北里柴三郎
　　　印裁　　AA502051NR　1000
　　　　　国立印刷局製造

Translation:
Thousand yen　Bank of Japan note

Bank of Japan
Kitasato Shibasaburō
Seal of the Governor
Manufactured by the National Printing Bureau

Reverse

Multicolour print (1 main colours and 6 background colours); red seal.
Reproduction of "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" (神奈川沖浪裏; Kanagawa-oki nami ura), ukiyo-e woodblock print from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" (富嶽三十六景; Fugaku sanjūrokkei) by KATSUSHIKA Hokusai in 1831, on the left. Bank logo on top. Large denomination on top-right corner, and small one on bottom-left corner. Seal of the Director-General of the Bank of Japan's Currency Issue Department on lower-right.
EURion constellations on upper-left, upper-right of the center frame, and another one upper-right of the seal. Latent "NIPPON" visible when looking from bottom, on center right.

Scripts: Chinese (traditional, seal script), Latin

Lettering:
NIPPON GINKO　　1000

　　　　　　　　　券
　　　　　　　　長發
1000 YEN　　　　　局

Lettering (regular font):
NIPPON GINKO　　1000

　　　　　　　　　券
　　　　　　　　長發
1000 YEN　　　　　局

Translation:
Bank of Japan
Director-General of the Currency Issue Department

Watermark

Head of Kitasato Shibasaburō facing slightly left with high-definition patterns. One vertical bar embedded to the right of the main portrait (see the comments section for a photo of the bar)

Printer

National Printing Bureau (国立印刷局, Imperial Printing Bureau of Japan), Japan (1871-date)

Comments

Started printing on 10 September, 2021.

The number ‘1’ in denominations are without upper hook, in contrary of 10000 Yen which use ‘1’ with hook.

Under backlight, to the right of Kitasato Shibasaburō's head is a single bar watermark:

The note has a 3D hologram of Kitasato Shibasaburō's head:

On each side of the obverse by the tactile marks is a patch of pink iridescent ink visible only when the note is tilted:

On the reverse the word “NIPPON” appears or disappears, depending on the viewing angle:

UV activity (365nm). Only the governor's seal shows bright yellow UV activity:

Under UVC light (254nm) the governor's seal is red:

Source [pdf]

Video presentation of the note: [Youtube]

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (2024)								$ 7.00	$ 7.70	$ 12

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