Here's a bit of World trivia from my favorite collection area - 1. How many busts have appeared on a Japanese coin? 2. When was it minted? 3. Who was the subject? Like the trivia threads on the main forum, the only prize for this one is the knowledge that you have learned something interesting.
Well - just based on your question - the first answer is 1. As for #2 - sometime between now and then And #3 - you know - that one guy OK OK - you're really gonna me make go look this up now aren't ya
Bad wording on my part. The first question was supposed to be how many busts on coins, and the other two were supposed to refer specifically to the first such coin. Your spelling is correct, but the answer isn't. For over a thousand years prior to the U.S. occupation, most Japanese had never seen their Emperor, or realistic depictions of his appearance. Hirohito's radio broadcast announcing Japan's surrender in August, 1945, was the first time the general public had ever heard his voice. His renunciation of the doctrine of Imperial divinity, however, did not change the practice that the ruler's image does not appear on money - no busts on coins, and no pictures on notes. (Japanese notes, unlike coins, have traditionally carried pictures of people, just less exalted ones.
You mean to tell me that I spent 2 1/2 hrs last night looking for the answer to that question and the answer is 0 ? Gonna getcha for that satootoko
Again, the question is about busts, not necessarily busts of the Emperor. The answer is absolutely, positively, certainly > 0. Hint - There are pictures of coins in Krause.
Now c'mon - the first thing I did was go through every Krause there is page by page !! I even used a magnifying glass !! Surely you don't mean the little guy inside the temple Why you can barely see the temple
OK - gonna try this ONE MORE TIME ! I shoulda known you'd make it so obvious that I'd never think of it. Turn that old icon of yours around will ya So my answer will be 4 1 - 1990 5,000 yen 2 - 1986 100,000 yen 3 - 1987 100,000 yen 4 - 1988 100,000 yen As to who is the subject - no idea at all. On my #1 it appears to be some woman. On my #2 - #4 it appears to be some thing. Of course it could just be that I have been staring a pics of Japanese coins in Krause through a magnifying glass so long that I am now seeing - things I give up pal - you win on this one
I guess the idea of world trivia - at least involving Japanese coins - is a real flop - hardly anyone cares. The JNDA catalog describes the head on the 1990 ¥5,000 Osaka Expo commemorative as "girl with wreath of flowers and leaves", sort of a Little Sister Nature. The Expo itself was a celebration of flowers and greenery, hence the edge inscription of "Hana to Midori" ("Flowers & Greenery"). She was the first head ever appearing on a Japanese coin. All of the subsequent Olympic and Asian Games commemoratives with athletes depicted showed full body generic sportsmen, not busts and not identifiable individuals. Well, I don't know how you converted stylized birds into heads on the ¥100,000 coins ('86, '87 and '90), but then I don't know what you were drinking to prevent dehydrating the brain while studying - or Thanks for participating, and here's an ATTA for all your effort, and your partial answer.
