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| 裏面の説明 | Reverse is printed in brown on vertically oriented paper within an ornate border of scrolling cloud and floral guilloche patterns, with a dragon vignette at the upper frame. The central field carries vertical columns of Chinese characters denoting the Meiji era date (慶應戊辰, Keio 4th year, 1868), the issuing authority seal, and the inscription 通用十三年限 (valid for thirteen years), accompanied by an oval red official seal. |
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The Daijo-kan notes of 1868 were among the first paper instruments issued under the new Meiji government, rushed out as the administration urgently needed to finance military operations against Tokugawa holdouts — most critically the Boshin War, which was still being fought when these notes entered circulation. The government had almost no experience managing a paper currency at national scale, and public confidence was thin. Metallic coinage, particularly gold and silver, remained the preferred medium among merchants.
The "Shu" denomination is a subdivision rooted in the old Edo-period gold coinage system — its use here reflects the awkward transitional moment when the Meiji reformers were grafting new fiscal machinery onto deeply familiar weight-based monetary units before the sen-and-yen decimal system was formally introduced in 1871.