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2 unusual facts about Edoardo Chiossone


Daikoku-ten

Daikoku's image was featured on the first Japanese bank note, designed by Edoardo Chiossone.

Edoardo Chiossone

Other portraits followed in 1876, those of Ōkubo Toshimichi, Saigō Tsugumichi (younger brother of Saigō Takamori, who was Minister of the Navy and Home Minister), and William Chapman Ralston of the Bank of California.



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