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32 Mon
| Issuer | Morioka Domain (Japanese feudal domains) |
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| Year | 1835 |
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| Value | 32 Mon |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print with red overstamp; vignette at top shows Hotei, full-length, frontal, corpulent and smiling, holding a staff affixed with a rigid fan-shaped leaf, surrounded by Fundō weights, Cintāmaṇi gems, Uchide-no-kozuchi, and other auspicious objects. Central field carries several text cartouches; base bears three Cintāmaṇi on a wave ground. Diagonal seal-script overstamp applied in red to the center. |
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| Obverse lettering | 手切岡盛 米七合代 錢 三 拾 貮 文 時之相塲 藏元改 (Translation: Morioka bill Rice seven Gō substitute Cash thirty-two Mon Market price that time Kuramoto examined) |
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Morioka Domain, a Nambu clan territory in northern Honshu, issued its own paper scrip throughout the late Edo period as a matter of fiscal necessity rather than privilege — the Tokugawa shogunate permitted domains to print hansatsu to manage local liquidity, and Morioka used this authority extensively. The 32 mon denomination is an odd fraction, almost certainly designed to facilitate specific local transactions or to break down into smaller commercial units without producing awkward change.
Hansatsu from Morioka are rarely encountered in collectible grades. The domain's northern climate and the disposable nature of low-denomination scrip conspired against long-term survival.