Display non ascii (Japanese) characters in pandas plot legend

Question

If I do this:

import pandas as pd
pd.DataFrame( data=nr.random( (2,2) ), columns=[u\'é\',u\'日本\'] ).plot()

Result:

Answer 1

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager

df = pd.DataFrame( data=np.random.random( (2,2) ), columns=[u'é',u'日本'] )
ax = df.plot()
legend = ax.legend()
font = font_manager.FontProperties(fname='/Users/user/Downloads/IPAfont00303/ipag.ttf')

for text in legend.texts:
    text.set_font_properties(font)

plt.show()