thing.

September 19-23 in Japan was a series of national holidays called "Silver Week", culminating with the autumnal equinox of September 23.

The handful of Japanese immigrants I know have a much better knowledge of Japanese novelists and poets than most Americans do of American writers. One thing some countries do--which I love--is to put artists on some of their currency. Can anyone tell me if the Japanese do this?

I wish the United States would designate one bill for writers and one bill for scientists, and change the persons featured on each bill every five years. For example, the $10 could be for writers and the $20 could be for scientists. Countries are great not just because of presidents and statesmen, so why feature only presidents and statesmen on currency?

I think its cute that Canada puts animals on the money!

... after my post, and found that the 5,000 yen banknote features Ichiyō Higuchi, a writer most known for her short stories and, according to Wikipedia, "Japan?s first prominent woman writer of modern times." She died very young, at the age of 24. I'm astonished that she could have had such influence with such a short life.



I didn't know Canadians have critters on their currency, but I like that idea too!

Although I think they're overdue for a coin featuring a crow--but I may be just a little biased there.

The beaver made me chuckle because it made me think of the "Welcome to Canada!" beaver.