Gender, wrinkles, money
Featureless female face
shortchanges banknote printers (Mainichi Daily)
'Empress Jingu (a legendary leader of an ancient Japan) is the only other woman ever to have appeared on a Japanese banknote and that was back in the early Meiji Era (1868-1912). Since then, all the money has only ever had pictures of men who accomplished great deeds. And they all had distinguishing features, like wrinkles, a beard or wore glasses, which served as a symbol of them,' the old boy tells Shukan Shincho. 'Mint craftsman are bamboozled over how they can draw Higuchi's smooth, featureless face without making it easy for counterfeiters to copy her.'
* Ray, 1/07/2004 01:57:42 PM
