Japan Banknote 1872 Tshūhō 10Sen (Meiji)
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Terms About Us Return Policy Shipping Payment read the history behind the banknote The Banknote you always wanted Emperor Meiji A very nice genuine banknote in Fine conditions of Japan issued during the Meiji Period. This is not a copy! It's a real banknote Year : 1872 to 1887 (date range on this banknote issuance) Size : 87mm x 53mm ---------------------- Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji Tennō , literally “emperor of enlightened rule”) (November 3, 1852 – July 30, 1912) was the 122nd imperial ruler of Japan , according to the traditional order of succession. His personal name was Mutsuhito (睦仁). At the time of his birth in 1852, Japan was an isolated, pre-industrial, feudal country dominated by the Tokugawa Shogunate and the daimyo , who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains. During the reign of the Meiji emperor from 1867 to 1912, Japan was transformed from a feudal country into one of the powers of the modern world. Emperor Meiji rarely wielded personal political power, but he presided over the Westernization of Japan by abolishing the feudal land system, reforming education, and adopting for Japan a democratic form of government under the Meiji Constitution of 1890. The Meiji emperor himself embodied the imposition of Western innovations and ideas on traditional Japanese culture; he wore Western clothes
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