| With the new bills set to be issued in Japan on July 3, a snack bread resembling a new Japanese 10,000-yen banknote is creating a buzz.
It is made from domestic wheat and produced by a gift shop in Kita Ward, Tokyo, named Shibusawa Ippinkan Tsunagu Marche. The shop dedicated to Eiichi Shibusawa, the legendary Japanese businessman featured on the new 10,000-yen bill, has already sold approximately 1,200 of these special breads since its sales launch in late April this year. The square-shaped snack bread is made from wheat produced in Japan, including Hokkaido, and filled with a sweet potato paste. (Both a banknote and a sweet potato are called “osatsu” in Japanese.) It is made to match the size of a real 10,000-yen banknote, big enough to fill a hungry stomach. “We hope more people learn more about Shibusawa when the new notes are issued,” Tomoko Suzuki, 56, from a company that runs the store, said. The bread is priced at 550 yen per piece. The shop plans to introduce snack bread resembling 5,000-yen and 1,000-yen bills made from ingredients produced in areas closely connected to the legendary Meiji-era figure.  The snack bread resembling a new Japanese 10,000-yen note features a legendary Japanese businessman, Eiichi Shibusawa. The product is called “Osatsu Pan (Pan means bread in Japan)” (in Kita Ward, Tokyo) |