Japan spread its programme for the 60th anniversary of the Local Autonomy Law over nine years, 2008 to 2016, giving every one of the 47 prefectures its own silver 1000 yen coin. Kagawa's turn came in 2014, in the same year as Ehime, Yamagata, Ishikawa, Mie and Saitama. This coin is catalogued as Y# 218.

Kagawa chose Ritsurin Garden in Takamatsu for its side of the coin. Its South Pond took shape around 1625 under the feudal lord Ikoma Takatoshi; from 1642 the Matsudaira family developed the garden for more than a century, completing it in 1745, and it became a public garden in 1875. Its trademarks include the hako-matsu box pines, pruned into intricate shapes for over three hundred years, with Mount Shiun forming a natural backdrop.

The reverse shared by the whole programme hides a latent image: at the centre of the largest snow crystal the numerals 47, for the prefectures, and 60, for the anniversary, alternate as the coin is tilted. Each silver issue in the series had the same mintage of 100,000. Struck in proof with colour printing, the coin sets frosted relief against a mirror field, which makes the coloured garden scene especially vivid.

This example comes in souvenir packaging together with stamps.