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5 Ei / 1/200 Ryō Ashimori domain
| Issuer | Ashimori Domain (足守領) |
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| Year | 1852 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | At the upper register, a full-length frontal vignette of Daikokuten, the deity of wealth, seated upon two straw rice bales. At the lower register, a jar of rice wine (sake) flanked by dragons amid crashing waves. Vertical text panels carry the domain and instrument inscriptions in classical Chinese-Japanese script. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black with a red official stamp applied. A vertical inscription is contained within a central cartouche, set against a seigaiha (overlapping wave scales) diaper pattern that fills the background field. |
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Ashimori was a small fudai domain in Bitchū Province, retained by the Kinoshita clan — descendants of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's elder sister — throughout the Edo period. Domain-issued scrip like this circulated strictly within the han's boundaries, functioning as a local credit instrument backed by the domain's own authority rather than the Tokugawa treasury. The 1/200 ryō denomination is notably fractional, suggesting it was designed for everyday small transactions among the domain's population, which numbered only a few thousand.
The 1852 issue falls during a period when many smaller domains were struggling with fiscal pressure and issuing increasing volumes of hansatsu to manage debt. Whether this note reflects genuine economic necessity or routine reissuance of an established series is unclear from surviving records.