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| Issuer | Ōmori (Japanese feudal domains) |
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| Year | 1847 |
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| Currency | Monme Silver / Monme-Gin / Ginme (1601-1874) |
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| Obverse description | Narrow rectangular note on brown paper, typical of Japanese feudal domain currency (hansatsu), bearing vertical brushwork inscriptions in classical Japanese script denoting the denomination and issuing authority. The composition is spare, relying on hand-brushed or woodblock-printed characters as the primary design element, consistent with mid-nineteenth century Ōmori domain local issue practice. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse on brown paper consistent with hansatsu production of the period, likely bearing an official seal or stamp of the issuing domain authority, possibly accompanied by supplementary inscriptions confirming validity or date of issue. |
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Ōmori was a minor han in Iwami Province (present-day Shimane Prefecture), historically significant as one of Japan's richest silver-mining districts — though by the mid-nineteenth century those mines were in serious decline. This note was issued under the han's own monetary authority, one of hundreds of such domain currencies circulating in Tokugawa Japan that could not legally be used outside their issuing domain's borders.
The extremely narrow format was common to Iwami-region hansatsu, a practical adaptation to the long, thin strips of paper traditionally produced in that part of Honshū.