Changes

A number of different modes of currency were used throughout Japanese history, including, in the pre-modern period, the heavy use of Chinese coins. By the [[Edo period]], a relatively standardized system of gold and silver coinage was in place, though it experienced dramatic inflation and devaluation, among other financial crises, at times. Systems which served as precursors for a "modern" system of banks and paper currency, along with futures markets and other such economic/financial developments, emerged in the 18th-19th centuries, and beginning in the [[Meiji period]], "modern" systems based on the Western model were established.

A number of different modes of currency were used throughout Japanese history, including, in the pre-modern period, the heavy use of [[Chinese currency|Chinese coins]]. By the [[Edo period]], a relatively standardized system of gold and silver coinage was in place, though it experienced dramatic inflation and devaluation, among other financial crises, at times. Systems which served as precursors for a "modern" system of banks and paper currency, along with futures markets and other such economic/financial developments, emerged in the 18th-19th centuries, and beginning in the [[Meiji period]], "modern" systems based on the Western model were established.

==Early Coinage==

==Early Coinage==

*Kobata Atsushi. "Coinage from the Kamakura Period through the Edo Period." ''[[Acta Asiatica]]'' 21 (1971). pp98-108.

*Kobata Atsushi. "Coinage from the Kamakura Period through the Edo Period." ''[[Acta Asiatica]]'' 21 (1971). pp98-108.

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==External Links==

==External Links==

*[http://homepage3.nifty.com/~sirakawa/Coin/J029.htm 一文と一両の価値] (The Value of a ''Mon'' and a ''Ryô''). Lists and charts of incomes and typical costs for goods and services in the Edo period. (In Japanese)

*[http://homepage3.nifty.com/~sirakawa/Coin/J029.htm 一文と一両の価値] (The Value of a ''Mon'' and a ''Ryô''). Lists and charts of incomes and typical costs for goods and services in the Edo period. (In Japanese)

*[http://freett.com/sukechika/ishin/keizai/ishin06-3.html 装備品] (Equipment). Costs for typical goods in the Edo period. (In Japanese)

*[http://freett.com/sukechika/ishin/keizai/ishin06-3.html 装備品] (Equipment). Costs for typical goods in the Edo period. (In Japanese)

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