Catalog
1 Bu Sen Hatamoto Note Wakasano Domain
| Issuer | Wakasano Domain (若狭野領) |
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| Year | 1822 |
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| Value | 1 Bu Sen |
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| Reverse description | Plain washi ground within a single-rule border, divided into two registers by a horizontal rule. The upper register bears several columns of brushwritten kanji text recording the issuing office and district designation. The lower register contains additional handwritten kanji notation alongside an oval or rounded official seal stamp, serving as the authenticating mark of the exchange office. |
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| Protection description | Hand-applied official seal stamp of the Wakasano Ako District Exchange Office, serving as the primary authentication mark. |
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Wakasano was a small hatamoto territory in Harima Province (present-day Hyogo Prefecture), administered not by a daimyo but by a direct retainer of the Tokugawa shogunate. Hatamoto domains lacked the full administrative apparatus of castle towns, yet many issued their own hansatsu — domain paper — to manage local exchange and, critically, to stretch thin rice stipends across the agricultural calendar. This note, denominated in bu-sen, reflects that fractional currency practice: bu-sen were copper-cash equivalents used where silver momme denominations were impractical for small transactions.
The washi substrate is typical of provincial Harima output, sourced locally rather than from the major paper houses of Echizen or Mino. Official seal authentication was the primary — often sole — anti-counterfeiting measure at this administrative level.