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English: A faithful reproduction of a 1728 scroll from the Sendai Domain that the depicts the manufacture of copper cash coins in Japan. "This picture shows the workers on the right pouring the molten metal into the sand mold, which has been stood up on its end. The man in the center is removing the coins from the mold after it has cooled and been opened up. The picture makes it seem as if he is removing them one by one, but this seems unlikely. The copper in the path to the coins has cooled as well and the coins are lifted out by this frame of hardened metal. They look like leaves on a branch. This is called in English a "coin tree" or in Japanese an "edasen." They are then cut or broken off the branch one by one. Some coins will have the traces of where the metal path came into their edge, either a slight lump still sticking out or a bite into the edge of the coin itself where the coin was broken off clumsily." - Dr. Luke Shepherd Roberts.
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The Manufacture of Cash Coins. (Professor Luke Roberts of the University of California at Santa Barbara)

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The Zeniza emaki ("Cash Mint Picture Scroll") which is reproduced in Nihon Ginkou Chousakyoku ed., Zuroku Nihon no kahei, vol.3 (Tokyo: Touyou Keizai Shinpousha, 1974), pp. 72-79 with notes on pp. 116-117.
Author Sendai Domain

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A faithful reproduction of a 1728 scroll from the Sendai Domain that the depicts the manufacture of copper cash coins in Japan.

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