⇛ English (issuing dates)
⇝ Transliteration
※ Japanese
⌖ How it's written on the notes
↪ English translation
non-bold is information is more for me and most likely not important for the creation of the issuer
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Pre-Meiji :
Federal & Central Government
Provincial notes
Companies
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Post-Meiji:
the following entries could all go under the same name "Government" to simplify things
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT:
⇛ Great Japanese Government - Ministry of Finance (1872)
⇝ Dai Nippon Seifu Ōkura-shō
※ 大日本政府大蔵省
⌖ 省蔵大府政本日大
⇛ Great Imperial Japanese Government (1881-1883; 1917-1922; 1938-1944)
⇝ Dai Nippon Teikoku Seifu
※ 大日本帝國政府
⌖ 幣紙府政國帝本日大
↪ Great Imperial Japanese Government Note
⇛ Imperial Japanese Government (1945)
⇝ Nippon Teikoku Seifu
※ 日本帝國政府
⌖ 幣紙府政國帝本日
↪ Imperial Japanese Government Note
⇛ Japanese Government (1948)
⇝ Nippon Seifu
※ 日本政府
⌖ 日本政府紙幣
↪ Japanese Government Note
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National Banks (there are 153 branches issuing notes ... I don't know how to handle these)
⌖ 幣紙用通國帝本日大
↪ Great Imperial Japanese Circulating Note
⇛ Great Imperial Japanese National Bank (1877-1878)
⇝ Dai Nippon Tei-koku Koku-ritsu Ginkō
※ 大日本帝国国立銀行
⌖ 行銀立国国帝本日大
⇛ Allied/U.S. Military (1945 -1957)
⇛ Bank of Japan (1885 - date ; if we ignore a view years of Allied Occupation)
⇝ Nippon Ginkō
※ 日本銀行
⌖ 券換兌行銀本日
↪ Bank of Japan Convertible Note
⌖ 券行銀本日 | 日本銀行券
↪ Bank of Japan Note
