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1 Bu 'Akita Sasa Ichibugin'
| Issuer | Kubota Domain |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Weight | 8.7 g |
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| Reverse description | Irregular rectangular flan with the same distinctive border of raised bosses along all four edges, mirroring the obverse. Within a recessed rectangular inner frame set against a cross-hatched ground, a stylised bamboo grass (sasa) spray is depicted in relief at the upper portion of the field, flanked on either side by a six-pointed star ornament — the sasa (笹) motif being the heraldic emblem of the Satake clan, lords of Kubota Domain, and lending this coinage its popular name 'Akita Sasa Ichibugin'. Below the sasa device, three Chinese characters are inscribed vertically in bold relief: 一 (ichi, one), 分 (bu, the denomination), and 銀 (gin, silver), reading together as 'One Bu Silver'. The composition and placement of the design elements reflect the hand-crafted, domain-specific monetary tradition of late Edo Japan. |
| Reverse script | Chinese |
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Kubota Domain — the han centered on present-day Akita city — issued this gin during the chaotic final months of the Boshin War, when Tokugawa authority had collapsed but Meiji monetary unification had not yet taken hold. Domain coinage proliferated across northern Honshu precisely because the old sankin-kōtai system had broken down and central minting supply chains were severed. Kubota sided with the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei against imperial forces, making this a coin issued by a domain that was, at the moment of striking, actively at war with the new government that would soon outlaw it.