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1 Silver Monme Shibamura-han, Yamato
| Issuer | Shibamura-han (芝村藩), Yamato Province |
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| Year | 1745 |
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| Currency | Monme Silver / Monme-Gin / Ginme (1601-1874) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a woodblock-printed composition of the Seven Gods of Fortune (Shichifukujin) arranged as a group vignette, rendered in the traditional Japanese ink-printed style characteristic of Edo-period hansatsu. Vertical columns of Chinese characters fill the surrounding margins, recording the issuing merchant establishment names — including the sake merchant Shūya Sōhachirō and Ryūmi Shirōemon — along with the han domain identity (Yamato, Shibamura) and auspicious commercial inscriptions. The layout reflects the dual function of the note as both a currency instrument and a talisman of prosperity. |
| Reverse lettering | 芝 和 村 州 商 寶 賣 鈔 通 印 財 造 國 試 富 験 ◯ 鑿 ◯ 詔 澤開◯通不 下◯◯◯榮 於◯◯寶◯ 民四◯大錘 ◯◯◯◯之 不之貿◯◯ 朽路易役◯ 所 札 的 酒 龍 場 屋 見 長 宗 四 兵 八 郎 衛 郎 右 衛 門 重 拯 邦 賢 穏 高 |
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Shibamura-han was a small fudai domain in Yamato Province (present-day Nara Prefecture) with an assessed yield of just 10,000 koku — the minimum threshold for han status. Domains of this size rarely issued their own paper currency, making this 1745 note an unusual artifact of the decentralized Tokugawa financial system, in which even minor lords maintained the legal right to circulate han-satsu within their territories.
The denomination in silver monme places it within a commodity-weight currency framework rather than the gold ryō system favored by larger domains. Acceptance outside Shibamura's narrow jurisdiction would have been essentially nil.