Japanese Currency Banknotes 1000 Yen note 2004 Hideyo Noguchi
Bank of Japan - Nippon Ginko
Obverse: Portrait of Hideyo Noguchi (November 24, 1876 – May 21, 1928), also known as Seisaku Noguchi, was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who in 1911 discovered the agent of syphilis as the cause of progressive paralytic disease.
Reverse: Mount Fuji and cherry blossoms.
Size : 76 ×150 mm.
Date of first issue : November 1, 2004.
Watermark: Hideyo Noguchi; the same portrait as on the front of the note.
Microprinting: “NIPPON GINKO” is printed in microscript that cannot be easily reproduced on color copy machines. The letters can be discerned when magnified using a tool such as a loupe (magnifying glass).
Luminescent ink: When ultraviolet light is shone on a note, the seal of the Governor of the Bank of Japan on the front side, and part of the background pattern on either side, become luminous.
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This bank note was issued to commemorate a G-8 Economic Summit in Okinawa.
2000 Yen
This bank note was issued to commemorate a G-8 Economic Summit in Okinawa.
Japanese banknotes 1000 Yen note
The 1000 yen note (¥1000) is currently the lowest value yen banknote and has been used since 1945, excluding a brief period between 1946 and 1950 during the American occupation of Japan. The fifth series (series E) notes are currently in circulation having been introduced on 11 November 2004 and are the smallest of the three common bank notes measuring 150 x 76 mm. The front side shows a portrait of Hideyo Noguchi, who in 1911 discovered the agent of syphilis as the cause of progressive paralytic disease. The reverse depicts Mount Fuji and cherry blossoms, adapted from a photograph by Koyo Okada. It was first issued on 1 November 2004.
Extensive anti-counterfeiting measures are present in the banknote. They include intaglio printing, holograms, microprinting, fluorescent ink, latent images, watermarks, and angle-sensitive ink.
First 1000 Yen note
The first 1000 Yen note was released on 17 August 1945. At the time each series of bank note was labelled series as opposed to series A, B, C, D, E. It measured 172 x 100 mm and featured images of the legendary prince Yamato Takeru and the Shinto shrine Takebe taisha. It was removed from circulation in 1954.
Series A 1000 yen note
A series A 1000 Yen bank note was never released in 1946 along with other bank notes.
Series B 1000 yen note
The series B 1000 Yen note measured 164 x 76 mm and entered circulation on 1 July 1950. The obverse displayed an image of the semi-legendary regent and politician under Empress Suiko, Prince Shōtoku. The reverse side contained an image of the "Yumedono" (literally Hall of Dreams) in the grounds of Hōryū-ji, a Buddhist temple located in Nara Prefecture. Only one version of the bank note existed and was removed from circulation on 4 January 1965.
Series C 1000 yen note
Like its predecessor, the series C 1000 Yen note measured 164 x 76 mm and entered circulation on 1 November 1963. The obverse side contained a portrait of Itō Hirobumi, who, under Emperor Meiji, was the first Prime Minister of Japan assuming office in 1885. The reverse side displayed an image of the Bank of Japan. The series C note was released with the bank number in two different colours: black (from 1963) and blue (from 1976). It was removed from circulation on 4 January 1986.
Series D 1000 yen note
The series D 1000 Yen note, like the series E note currently in circulation, measured 150 x 76 mm and entered circulation on 1 November 1984. The obverse side contained a portrait of the Meiji period novelist Natsume Sōseki whose famous works include I Am a Cat and Kokoro. The reverse side featured two red-crowned cranes. The series D note was released with the bank number in four different colours: black (from 1984), blue (from 1990), brown (from 1993) and green (from 2000). With series E being brought into circulation in 2004, the series D notes were removed from circulation on 2 April 2007.
Hideyo Noguchi, original name Noguchi Seisaku (born Nov. 24, 1876, Inawashiro, Japan — died May 21, 1928, Accra, Gold Coast colony [now Ghana]), Japanese bacteriologist who first discovered Treponema pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis, in the brains of persons suffering from paresis. He also proved that both Oroya fever and verruga peruana could be produced by Bartonella bacilliformis; they are now known to be different phases of Carrion’s disease, or bartonellosis.
Noguchi graduated in 1897 from a proprietary medical school in Tokyo and then went in 1900 to the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, where he worked on snake venoms under Simon Flexner. In 1904 he went to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York City, which sponsored his work for almost a quarter of a century. Noguchi devised means of cultivating microorganisms that had never before been grown in the test tube. He studied poliomyelitis and trachoma and worked on a vaccine and serum for yellow fever. He died of yellow fever, which he contracted during research on the disease in Africa.