{"id":7537,"date":"2019-12-07T09:55:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T09:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/?p=7537"},"modified":"2019-12-07T09:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T09:55:33","slug":"confucius-hates-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2019\/12\/confucius-hates-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Confucius hates Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once upon a time I was big into Chinese currency. Not so much as a speculator, but as one of the people who bought old banknotes from people who were selling them all over China and Taiwan. I even did a post <\/a>about it, and published a version<\/a> of it. I still have a lot of the old stuff around and use it in classes, but there is one question that has always eluded me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A number of the people selling me old banknotes had a story about the Japanese occupation notes, and while it took several forms, the basic gist of it was that one of the Japanese occupation governments issued a note with Confucius giving an obscene gesture to some sort of symbol of Japan. The artist who slipped this in was supposedly executed, although of course that would be a small price to pay for pulling off something like that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Confucius does indeed turn up on a lot of puppet banknotes, which is not surprising, since he fits in well with the whole Pan-Asian Kingly Way (\u738b\u9053) ideology. Is the story true? Well there is some evidence. Here is a standard Confucius, who turns up on a lot of puppet notes. As you can see, his hands on most of the notes are in that standard Confucius mudra, \"\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, as you can see on this note, he is sometimes different. \"\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detail \"\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I would like to know is First, does anyone know if this is an actual obscene gesture that he is making with his hands? Second, does anyone have a source for the story about the engraver slipping this in that is better than my source “some guys who sell banknotes told me this”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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