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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 942838, member: 4703&quot;]Issued May 21, 1930, demonetized March 2, 1946, #11-46 in the Japanese Numismatic Dealers Assn. Catalog.</p><p><br /></p><p>The portrait is of Wake no Kiyomaro, an 8th Century government official who played a major role in selecting Kyoto as the Imperial capital, which it remained until the 19th Century Meiji Restoration resulted in moving the capital to Tokyo.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Wake_no_Kiyomaro_statue.JPG/220px-Wake_no_Kiyomaro_statue.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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