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3 Silver Monme Shiga, Mikawa
| Issuer | Nagasawa Sanbutsukai (長澤産物會所) |
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| Year | 1730 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 形手物産澤長 〇 〇 〇 〇 〇 〇 〇 銀 〇 〇 叁 〇 〇 匁 〇 〇 〇 〇 〇 〇 〇 長 澤 〇 所 |
| Reverse description | At centre, three Hōju sacred jewels are enclosed within a circular vignette flanked by two herons and floral ornamentation; a zodiac cartouche for Tori (the Rooster) accompanies this upper device. Below, vertical text panels are arranged in columns with a red official seal at mid-field, and the lower register presents stylized seal-script calligraphy with a blue stamp, the whole flanked on both sides by decorative borders. |
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The Nagasawa Sanbutsukai was a regional commodity association — a sanbutsukaisha-type body — rather than a formally chartered financial institution, which makes its issuance of negotiable paper an interesting case of early Edo-period commercial pragmatism. Silver monme denominations were common units in western Japan's mercantile accounting system, but paper instruments denominating silver by weight in a rural Mikawa context reflect how deeply credit-based trade had penetrated provincial markets by the third decade of the eighteenth century.
Mulberry bark paper — the same base material used for most Edo hansatsu — was chosen for its durability under repeated handling, though provincial clan and merchant notes of this period suffer disproportionately from fold failures along the vertical crease.