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1 Bu 'Doshū Kinsatsu'
| Issuer | Tosa Domain |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Currency | Mon (700-1870) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black by letterpress in vertical format. A rectangular frame in the upper-center area encloses a vertical inscription in Chinese regular script (kaisho). At the lower portion of the note, a vignette of a whale swimming left is rendered, with a tall spout issuing from its blowhole — a motif closely associated with the maritime character of the Tosa region. |
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| Reverse lettering | 高知藩 會計司 (Translation: Kōchi Domain Accounting Officer) |
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Tosa Domain's paper currency from 1868 sits at a hinge point: the Meiji Restoration was underway, and han issuing their own notes on the old feudal model were operating on borrowed time. The new government moved quickly to suppress domain currencies, and most Tosa notes were called in and destroyed within a few years of issue — which accounts for the scarcity of surviving examples across the entire Tosa series.
The "Doshū Kinsatsu" designation identifies this as domain gold-standard scrip, a classification that says more about nominal backing claims than actual convertibility practice.