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Kintsugi (Japanese: 金継ぎ, lit. 'golden joinery'), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), [1] is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. The method is similar to the maki-e technique.
An Ōban (大判) was a monetary ovoid gold plate, and the largest denomination of Tokugawa coinage. Tokugawa coinage worked according to a triple monetary standard, using gold, silver and bronze coins, each with their own denominations. [1] Keichō gold coinage: Ōban, Koban, Ichibuban, 1601–1695.
Farmers made their tax payments of rice which eventually made its way into the coffers of the central government; and similarly, vassals were annually paid a specified koku of rice. The Portuguese who came to Japan in the 1550s, however, preferred gold to rice; and the koban, which was equal to three koku of rice, became the coin of choice in ...
These coins also proved to be unpopular with the public as they were small, unwieldy, and easy to lose. [4] Replacements for the gold Shu in the form of silver coinage began on July 10, 1829, and gold Shu coinage ended in the 3rd year of Tenpō (1832). Legally, the series was discontinued at the end of the 11th year of Tenpō (1840).
The terminology included may relate to prehistoric art of the Jomon and Yayoi periods, Japanese Buddhist art, nihonga techniques using sumi and other pigments and dyes, various artisan crafts such as lacquerware techniques, katana and swordmaking, temple, shrine, and castle architecture, carpentry terms, words relating to kimono making industry ...
The first Japanese one-yen coins were minted between 1871 and 1872 using both silver and gold alloys. [1] [2] This came at a time when a new decimal system was put into place, and a modern mint was established at Osaka.
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