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| 表面の銘文 | 甲子十月 高野山大徳院 御貸附役所 (Translation: Wood Rat tenth month Kōya-san Daitokuin Credit administrative office) |
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| 偽造防止の説明 | Square red inkan (official seal) on obverse; circular red seal stamp on reverse, each impressed in vermilion ink as an authenticating mark. |
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Kōya-san is the mountain temple complex in Wakayama Prefecture that has served as the headquarters of Shingon Buddhism since Kūkai founded it in the early ninth century. By the Edo period, the complex had accumulated enough institutional wealth and commercial influence to function almost like a minor financial authority — issuing its own credit notes, called *hansatsu*, for use among merchants and pilgrims operating in and around the temple precincts. This 1 Monme note was issued just four years before the Meiji Restoration dismantled the feudal issuing system entirely, making late-date temple *hansatsu* among the shorter-lived paper instruments of the period.
The Daitokuin was one of several sub-temples within Kōya-san's administrative structure. Its credit office role places this note at the intersection of religious authority and local monetary function — an arrangement the new Meiji government moved quickly to abolish after 1868.