ARCHIVE NO. JPY-YAMADA-HAGAKIStatus: ARCHIVED
SERIES YAMADA HAGAKI
Ise merchants' note
Regarded as Japan's earliest paper money
- First issue
- 1600s
BANK OF YAN · ヤン銀行
National Monetary Archive
Banknotes, photographs and documents of the paper era.
1935 · Kōyō Ishikawa · Public domain
The paper era 紙幣の時代
Source: National Printing Bureau of Japan / Bank of Japan. Specimen images pending reproduction rules.
19 SPECIMENS · 1600s → 2026
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-HANSATSU-1730Status: ARCHIVED
SERIES HANSATSU
Domain note, Fukuyama
Feudal domain paper money
- First issue
- 1730
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-DAJOKAN-1RYOStatus: ARCHIVED
SERIES DAJOKAN-SATSU
1 ryō
First nationwide government note
- First issue
- 1868
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-MEIJI-10Status: ARCHIVED
SERIES MEIJI TSUHO
10 yen
Government note, engraved by Edoardo Chiossone
- First issue
- 1872
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-A-10Status: ARCHIVED
SERIES A
10 yen
Diet Building
- First issue
- Feb 25, 1946
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-B-1000Status: ARCHIVED
SERIES B
1,000 yen
Prince Shōtoku
↺ Yumedono, Hōryū-ji
- First issue
- Jan 07, 1950 → Jan 04, 1965
- Size
- 164 × 76 mm
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-C-5000Status: ARCHIVED
SERIES C
5,000 yen
Prince Shōtoku
↺ Bank of Japan
- First issue
- Oct 01, 1957 → Jan 04, 1986
- Size
- 169 × 80 mm
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-C-10000Status: ARCHIVED
SERIES C
10,000 yen
Prince Shōtoku
↺ Phoenix, Byōdō-in
- First issue
- Dec 01, 1958 → Jan 04, 1986
- Size
- 174 × 84 mm
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-C-1000Status: ARCHIVED
SERIES C
1,000 yen
Itō Hirobumi
↺ Bank of Japan building
- First issue
- Nov 01, 1963 → Jan 04, 1986
- Size
- 164 × 76 mm
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-D-1000Status: ARCHIVED
SERIES D
1,000 yen
Natsume Sōseki
↺ Two red-crowned cranes
- First issue
- Nov 01, 1984 → Apr 02, 2007
- Size
- 150 × 76 mm
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-D-5000Status: ARCHIVED
SERIES D
5,000 yen
Nitobe Inazō
↺ Mount Fuji, Lake Motosu
- First issue
- Nov 01, 1984 → Apr 02, 2007
- Size
- 155 × 76 mm
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-D-10000Status: ARCHIVED
SERIES D
10,000 yen
Fukuzawa Yukichi
↺ Pheasants
- First issue
- Nov 01, 1984 → Apr 02, 2007
- Size
- 160 × 76 mm
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-E-1000Status: ARCHIVED
SERIES E
1,000 yen
Noguchi Hideyo
↺ Mount Fuji and cherry blossoms
- First issue
- Nov 01, 2004
- Size
- 150 × 76 mm
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-E-5000Status: ARCHIVED
SERIES E
5,000 yen
Higuchi Ichiyō
↺ Irises (Ogata Kōrin)
- First issue
- Nov 01, 2004
- Size
- 156 × 76 mm
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-E-10000Status: ARCHIVED
SERIES E
10,000 yen
Fukuzawa Yukichi
↺ Phoenix, Byōdō-in
- First issue
- Nov 01, 2004
- Size
- 160 × 76 mm
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-F-1000Status: CURRENT
SERIES F
1,000 yen
Kitasato Shibasaburō
↺ The Great Wave off Kanagawa
- First issue
- Jul 03, 2024
- Size
- 150 × 76 mm
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-F-5000Status: CURRENT
SERIES F
5,000 yen
Tsuda Umeko
↺ Wisteria
- First issue
- Jul 03, 2024
- Size
- 156 × 76 mm
ARCHIVE NO. JPY-F-10000Status: CURRENT
SERIES F
10,000 yen
Shibusawa Eiichi
↺ Tokyo Station, Marunouchi
- First issue
- Jul 03, 2024
- Size
- 160 × 76 mm
ARCHIVE NO. YAN-SPECIMEN-0001Status: SPECIMEN · NOT ISSUED
SERIES YAN · 2026
Commemorative specimen
A numbered run of 100 specimen notes was printed in 2026 as a record. None entered circulation; all are held in this archive.
- Specimens printed
- 100
- Issued
- 0
- Held in archive
- 100
- Size
- 150 × 76 mm