In 2024 the banknotes will be renewed with portraits.
It seems that it will be changed to a new banknote every 20 years, but this time it is rarely used among the three banknotes "5,000 yen bill" , I will introduce the portraits.
If you don't have many chances to see the 5000-yen bill, you only use one for each use, so even more "Who was it?" I think there are many people who end up with that.
I would like to take this opportunity to get to know the great men who were selected as portraits on the 5000-yen bill.
Prince Shotoku, the person who appeared most often on the bills!
October 1, 1957 It is no exaggeration to say that the first portrait of the 5000-yen bill, which was issued by Japan, is the most famous person in the history of Japan Prince Shotoku . Mr. is.
And the 10,000-yen note, which was issued one year and two months later, is also Prince Shotoku . It was Mr.
By the way, the second type of 1000-yen bill issued from 1950 was also Prince Shotoku, and the 100-yen bill was from the 4th type issued in 1930 to the 7th type whose payment was suspended in 1956. Until then, Prince Shotoku was employed.
It is fading in modern times, but at that time "banknote =Prince Shotoku" It seems that the image was also big, and this may be the reason why he is the most famous person in the history of Japan.
"Bridge of the Pacific Ocean"! Inazo Nitobe, Deputy Secretary-General of the League of Nations!
November 1, 1984 For about 20 years since then, it was Nitobe Inazo that became the portrait of the 5000-yen bill. It is a person named Mr.
There was an idea to hire women, but Murasaki Shikibu Sanya Sei Shonagon Has no photo, Akiko Yosano Made an anti-war song, Ichiyo Higuchi Because she was short-lived, Inazo, who was focusing on girls' education, was hired.
By the way, Murasaki Shikibu is used for the 2000-yen bill issued in 2000, and Higuchi Ichiyo is used for the next 5000-yen bill.
What kind of person is Inazo Nitobe?
1862 , Mutsu Province Born as the third son of his father, who was an servant of the Morioka domain in (now Iwate Prefecture). It is the middle of the Edo period.
Mr. Inazo's great-grandfather, grandfather, and father are very talented people, and they will study English from childhood. There are many Western things in the Shin Watato family, and it was an easy environment to have a longing for.
At one point, the Emperor Meiji was on an imperial visit. "Take over his ancestral family business and work hard on agriculture" while resting at the Shin Watato family. I heard that the word was called.
First of all, when the emperor comes to the house, you can see the family.
Around 10 years old I went to Tokyo to study English and around 13 years old I enrolled in the newly opened Tokyo English School (one of the predecessors of the University of Tokyo).
at the age of 15 , The only bachelor's degree at the time to pursue the agricultural path that he began to pursue after being spoken by the emperor I will enroll in Sapporo Agricultural College (currently Hokkaido University), which was a high school that was given a. A bachelor's degree is a degree given to those who have graduated from university.
When Sapporo Agricultural College was founded, "Boys, be ambitious" Famous for Dr. Clark Was appointed as the deputy principal. However, it was a mistake with Mr. Inazo, a second-year student.
Most of the first-year students are enrolled in Christianity due to Dr. Clark's Bible class, and the second-year students are also enrolled in Christianity due to that influence.
Inazo also baptized "Paul" I got the name and became absorbed in Christianity. Originally, when it became a dispute, it became hot and the fighting was a mess, but "Christ does not like conflict. Read the Bible rather than that." It is said that the transformation was fierce.
Served as a number of professors and principals, and even became the Deputy Secretary-General of the League of Nations!
After graduating from Sapporo Agricultural College, he went on to study locusts at the Hokkaido Government and then to Imperial University, but dropped out due to the low level of research.
Around 23 , "Become a bridge over the Pacific Ocean" I entered an American university. Around this time, his later wife, Mary Will meet.
After that, he was appointed as an assistant professor at his alma mater, Sapporo Agricultural College, and PhD while studying abroad in Germany. Has been given.
Around 30 , Married Mary in the United States while returning from Germany After returning to Japan, I am assigned to a professor at Sapporo Agricultural College. Around this time, Bachelor of Honor Is getting
Inazo, who became ill due to the death of his first child, wrote "Bushido" during medical treatment in California. Written in English and later published in German and French, it became a bestseller. He even impressed President Roosevelt of the United States.
Around 42 , Resigned from Sapporo Agricultural College, was appointed as an engineer of the Government-General of Taiwan, and also serves as a professor at Kyoto Imperial University Law School. Ph.D. in Law To get
Around 47 At the same time, he was the principal of Daiichi High School, and at the same time he was also a professor at the Law University of Tokyo Imperial University.
1914 "World War I" Japan will win on the Allied side, but to avoid such a conflict, "League of Nations" Was born.
Around 60 Mr. Inazo is the representative of Japan Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations Was chosen as one of the.
After retiring from the Deputy Secretary-General who served for seven years, she became the first principal of the Tokyo Women's Economics College. Around this time, she was a Professor Emeritus To get.
In her later years, she tries to improve the impression of Japan, which was seen by the international community from a strict perspective, but on the contrary, she is criticized both domestically and internationally.
And, ironically, in the same year that Japan announced that it would withdraw from the League of Nations, he collapsed in Canada and became a person who never returned. 72 years old ..
"Pacific Bridge" It was a life that ran through as much as possible.
Japan then "World War II" It will advance to the war of.