Catalogus
Volledige afbeeldingen bekijken — gratis registratie
Doorgaan met Google — het is gratis
of registreer met e-mail
1 Monme Okada Domain
| Uitgever | Okada Domain (備中岡田藩, Bitchū Okada Han) |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1732 |
| Type | Log in om details te zien |
| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Monme Silver / Monme-Gin / Ginme (1601-1874) |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Tall, narrow vertical format printed in black with blue and red hand-applied seals. A vignette at the top centre contains a woodblock image of Daikokuten, the god of wealth, enclosed within a decorative border; a large red square seal (印) is struck over the central portion of the note. The denomination 銀壹匁 (Silver One Monme) is inscribed in bold brushwork in the central column, flanked by the issue date in the Kyōhō era cyclical calendar and the domain and pawnbroker attribution below. |
|---|---|
| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beveiligingstype | Official seals |
| Beschrijving beveiliging | Log in om details te zien |
| Varianten | Log in om details te zien |
| Opmerkingen |
Okada Domain was a small fudai han in Bitchū Province assessed at roughly 10,000 koku — the minimum threshold for domain status — which made the decision to issue hansatsu in 1732 a meaningful economic act rather than a routine one. Domains at that stone were frequently dependent on Osaka merchant networks for financing, and local paper currency offered a way to manage rice-based obligations without hemorrhaging silver to outside creditors.
The monme denomination ties this note directly to silver-weight accounting, the commercial standard in western Japan, rather than the gold-based ryō system dominant in Edo. That alone marks this as a note designed for local merchant use, not samurai stipend administration.