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1 Silver Monme Hyogo, Kasai
| Issuer | Miyake Yahei, Nakanomura, Kasai-gun, Hyogo |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| Value | 1 Monme |
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| Obverse description | Tall, narrow rectangular note printed in dark ink on blue-grey paper with a double-rule border. The upper register contains a woodblock vignette of Ebisu, the deity of commerce and good fortune, shown holding a fishing rod and sea bream within a circular frame flanked by decorative scrollwork. Below, the central field carries the denomination in large bold kanji characters, flanked on both sides by dragon underprint panels in low relief. The lower register displays a row of small kanji legends and an issuer's cartouche with a stepped rectangular seal device, with wave motifs filling the flanking panels. |
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| Obverse lettering | 米切手 銭一匁 |
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Miyake Yahei was a private merchant issuer operating in Nakanomura, a village in Kasai-gun, and this note belongs to the broader class of late Edo-period hansatsu and quasi-hansatsu issued by wealthy merchants, landowners, and village headmen when domain and shogunal currency failed to meet local transactional needs. Silver monme denominations were the natural unit for such instruments in the Kinai and surrounding regions, where silver weight accounting remained dominant long after gold-based reckoning prevailed in Edo.
1863 places this squarely in the turbulent final decade of Tokugawa rule, when private paper proliferated rapidly and enforcement of shogunal restrictions on unauthorized note issuance had largely collapsed.