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3 Fun Yamato Province; Hōkiji-Mura
| Issuer | Nagasawa (Japanese feudal domains) |
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| Year | 1730 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress in black with red official stamps. At top, a vignette of Daikokuten in full-length frontal pose, seated upon two rice bales with a large treasure bag at his back. Vertical format with inscription panels arranged below the deity vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress in black with a single red official stamp. At top, a vignette of three Hōju sacred jewels emitting flames, placed upon a table. Vertical inscription panels below carry the issuing authority, date, and exchange terms. |
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Hansatsu — domain-issued scrip of feudal Japan — were printed by local merchants or officials under domain authority, and this example from Hōkiji-mura in Yamato Province fits that pattern precisely. Yamato (modern Nara Prefecture) had a dense network of small religious estates and village-level issuers; Nagasawa's authorization to circulate notes here likely derived from a specific commodity backing arrangement, possibly rice or cotton, both of which were significant to the province's economy.
The 1730 date places this squarely in the Kyōhō reform period, when the Tokugawa shogunate was actively attempting to suppress unauthorized currency — making the continued issuance of local hansatsu a persistent act of administrative defiance by smaller domains and village operators.