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1 Shu Minbushō-satsu
| Issuer | Minbushō (Ministry of Popular Affairs), Japan |
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| Year | 1869-1870 |
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| Value | 1 Shu (1⁄16) |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress print with red overstamps on a narrow vertical format. Vertical inscriptions are enclosed within a border composed of Hōō phoenixes in flight above iridescent clouds, with a dragon-horse facing left standing among paulownia foliage at the base. A red oval seal is stamped at the foot of the inscription column. |
| Reverse lettering | 明治己巳發行 確證 (Translation: Meiji [year] tsuchinoto-mi (Year of the Earth-Snake) issue Confirm) |
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The Minbushō-satsu series was issued in the immediate aftermath of the Meiji Restoration, when the new government had abolished domain currencies but had not yet built a functioning national banking system. These notes were effectively bridge instruments — rushed into circulation to fill the vacuum left by the collapsing han paper money system, and issued by a ministry that itself ceased to exist in 1871 when its functions were absorbed into the Ōkurashō.
The 1 Shu denomination sits at the lowest practical unit of the series, and surviving examples with intact paper are uncommon — the thin domestic stock used for these early Meiji issues was poorly suited to heavy handling.