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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 564196, member: 4703&quot;]Not sure I agree with that because, among other things: <ul> <li>The Tokyo and Osaka coin shows are as large as any in the States</li> <li>Coin shops abound in just about every city of any size</li> <li>The JNDA publishes a fully illustrated annual catalog of Japanese coins and currency in which dozens of member dealers advertise</li> <li>Prices are strong, often significantly higher than US prices for the same coins</li> <li>The Japan Mint produces multiple collector coins each year.</li> </ul><p></p><p>A niece has deciphered the poem for me, and if I understood her correctly, it essentially expresses the Emperor&#039;s belief that the world is like a family which isn&#039;t as peaceful as it ought to be.&nbsp; Her theory is that when the poem was written, the Emperor was unhappy about the Russo-Japanese War being fought at the time, and was also perhaps thinking of the civil strife which accompanied his restoration to full Imperial power and the termination of the Tokugawa Shogunate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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