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2 Kan Mon
| Issuer | Kaga Domain |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Plain washi paper ground bearing two hand-applied official seals in black ink: a circular seal positioned at the upper left and a square seal script cartouche at the lower center, with two large cursive characters in black ink to the upper right. |
| Reverse lettering | 清六 |
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Kaga Domain's paper money circulated in one of the wealthiest han in Tokugawa and early Meiji Japan — the Maeda clan's assessed rice yield of one million koku made Kaga the largest domain outside direct Tokugawa control. That wealth did not insulate it from the currency chaos of the late 1860s and early 1870s, when hundreds of domains issued their own hansatsu notes in anticipation of, or reaction to, the Meiji government's push toward monetary centralization.
By 1871, the new government ordered all domain currencies withdrawn following the abolition of the han system. Kaga hansatsu had an exceptionally short redemption window.