徳川期における小額貨幣 : 銭貨と藩札を中心に (<第五十九回大会特集号>徳川期貨幣の経済史 : 小額貨幣を中心として)

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  • Small Money in the Tokugawa Period (Economic History of Money in Tokugawa Japan)
  • 徳川期における小額貨幣--銭貨と藩札を中心に
  • トクガワキ ニ オケル ショウガク カヘイ センカ ト ハン レイ オ チュウ

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This paper is concerned with two sides of problem of the monetary system in the Tokugawa period: zeni (銭) and hansatsu (domain notes 藩札) It is well known that three different kinds of coin-gold, silver and zeni-were used in the Tokugawa, period. While gold coins were circulated in the eastern part of Japan, silver coins were used mainly in the western part. In spite of its small value, only zeni found a extensive use all over the country. It is true that zeni played a part as subsidiary money in the course of the development of commodity production. But we don't lose sight of the fact that zeni also penetrated into the daily life of larger parts of tradesmen and peasants. We can easily demonstrate it, by thinking of its use as price indicator of rice and wheat as well as transation in land. It was against such a background that a special system of calculating money, so called monme-sen (匁銭), developed in the western part, especially in a great number of han in Kyushu, although its circulation was confined to the territory of each han. We turn then to the hansatsu. It was issued at first as means of circulation for a substitute of metallic money. But later on, especially as the importance of money as means of payment increased, it began to take the function of credit money which followed the same economic role as a bill. In other words, hansatsu changed its character gradually from "domain notes" to credit money during the late Tokugawa period. We can regard this change as a symptom of domain's trying to get cut of the economic regulations from the Tokugawa-bakufu. In this perspective, it should be tinderstood, why the Meiji Restration had such a difficult delivery that was represented in a civil war carried by the alliance of great han.

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