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10 Kan Mon
| Issuer | Kaga Domain |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black ink on plain paper, the note is oriented vertically and carries the denomination in Chinese cursive script at the top center. The central vignette consists of a rectangular cartouche with rounded corners enclosing the denomination in Chinese regular script within a hexagonal frame surrounded by cloud motifs and flanked by two kirin mythical beasts in a traditional woodblock-printed style. Multiple official seals in red and black bearing vertical inscriptions in Chinese seal script are applied across the face of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper ground with a single rectangular black official seal bearing vertical inscriptions in Chinese seal script positioned at the upper right, and three smaller black seal impressions applied in a horizontal row along the lower portion of the note. |
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Kaga Domain, centered on present-day Ishikawa Prefecture, was one of the wealthiest han in Tokugawa Japan — second only to the Shogunate itself in assessed rice yield. Its domain notes, known as hansatsu, circulated within Kaga's borders as a matter of feudal monetary autonomy. This particular issue dates to 1870, the year after the new Meiji government issued its first directive restricting hansatsu issuance — placing this note at the very end of the domain currency system before the wholesale abolition of han financial independence in 1871.
Denominated in kan mon, the traditional copper cash unit, rather than the incoming yen system. That choice alone signals how recent this issue was relative to the currency transition that would make it obsolete within months.