File:Zeniza emaki ("Cash Mint Picture Scroll") 10.jpg

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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. "Next the coins are washed to remove filing dust etc. as being done by the man on the right. The water is then screened to retrieve the metal for recycling. This is called Genta nagashi. I have not included the picture here. After being washed the coins are dried to prevent early corrosion." - 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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