Obverse

Multicolour print (2 main colours and 9 background colours); red seal; black serial numbers.
Bust of SHIBUSAWA Eiichi front-facing at the right. Denomination in Arabic numerals in the center and one in Kanji to the top; denomination in Arabic numerals in cartouche with guillochés background on bottom-right corner. Cartouches with guillochés background on top-left, bottom-left, and top-right corners. Multiple repeating '10000' and Sakura cherry blossoms in the background.
Security stripe on the left; bust of SHIBUSAWA Eiichi in 3D hologram, which facing can change by angle of view, on top of the stripe; Sakura cherry blossoms and Mount Fuji in the middle; '10000' on bottom of the stripe. Seal of the Governor of the Bank of Japan to the bottom printed with luminescent ink, which fluoresce under ultraviolet
light. Three EURion constellations surrounding the center denomination, and another one upper-right of the main portrait. Cartouche with two Sakura cherry blossoms inside on the bottom-center, with latent image '10000' which can be seen when looking from bottom. 'NIPPONGINKO' in microtext blended on upper-left borderline of the bottom-right denomination; 'NIPPONGINKO' in microtext blended on upper-left borderline of the latent image. Tactile slanted bars aligned vertically on center left and right edge, 11 bars on each side. Pearl ink on center-left and center-right edge, which glow pink when looking from certain angle. Serial number consist of two latin alphabets, following by 6-digits number, then two latin alphabets.

Scripts: Chinese (traditional, clerical script), Chinese (traditional, seal script), Latin

Lettering:
壱円　　　　　日本銀行券

　　10000
　　日本銀行
　Bank of Japan
　　　　　　之総　　　　　　　渋沢 栄一
　　　　　　印裁　　　10000
　　　　　　　　　　国立印刷局製造

Translation:
10000 yen　Bank of Japan note

Bank of Japan
Shibusawa Eiichi
Seal of the Governor
Manufactured by the National Printing Bureau

Reverse

Multicolour print (1 main colours and 6 background colours); red seal.
Exterior perspective of Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building on the left. Bank logo on top. Large denomination on top-right corner, and small one on bottom-left corner. Seal of the Director-General of the Bank of Japan's Currency Issue Department on bottom-center. Another exterior perspective of Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building on the bottom right.
EURion constellations on upper-left, and upper-right of the center window, one on the lower-right of large denomination, and another one on the right of the seal. Latent image 'NIPPON' appearing when look from bottom, below the large denomination. 'NIPPONGINKO' in microtext in the left of the frame.

Scripts: Chinese (traditional, seal script), Latin

Lettering:
NIPPON GINKO　　10000

　　　　　　　　　券
　　　　　　 　　長 發
10000 YEN　　　　 局

Lettering (regular font):
NIPPON GINKO　　10000

　　　　　　　　　券
　　　　　　 　　長 發
10000 YEN　　　　 局

Translation:
Bank of Japan
Director-General of the Currency Issue Department

Watermark

Head of Shibusawa Eiichi with high-definition patterns. Three vertical bars on the right of main portrait.

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