Depicts Paulownia plant and highlighted legends (authority on top and value below).

Paulownia is a genus of six to 17 species of flowering plants and long cultivated in Japan. The genus, originally Pavlovnia but now usually spelled Paulownia, was named in honour of Anna Paulowna, queen consort of The Netherlands (1795–1865), daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia.

Paulownia is known in Japanese as kiri; it is also known as the "princess tree". It was once customary to plant a Paulownia tree when a baby girl was born, and then to make it into a dresser as a wedding present when she married. Paulownia is the mon of the office of prime minister and also serves as the emblem of the cabinet and the government (vis-à-vis the chrysanthemum being the Imperial Seal of Japan).

Depicts bamboo leaves on top and bottom, Mandarin orange on either side of the value. The year of issue in Kanji below the value.

Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana and katakana.

The date begins with the symbols for the era name Heisei (平成), followed by the era year, and ends with the symbol for year (年).

Y# 99.1 gives the regnal year as 'first' instead of 'one'. From the second year the regnal year is given as a numeral (2,3,4,...) in Japanese numerals, hence catalog nr. Y# 99.2

Nippon is a formal way of pronouncing the native name of Japan.