Description
和同開珎+わどうかいちん、わどうかいほう+は日本で最初の流通用の鋳造貨幣です。「続日本紀+しょくにほんぎ+」によれば、和銅元（708）年に武蔵国秩父郡の銅が献上されたことがきっかけで鋳造されたといいます。近年、富本銭+ふほんせん+が日本の最初の銅銭であることが分かりましたが、富本銭はまじないに使われたという説があります。
Data source
ColBase
"ColBase: Integrated Collections Database of the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, Japan" is a service that enables a multi-database search of the collections in the four national museums (To...
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National Institutes for Cultural Heritage
The National Institutes for Cultural Heritage (NICH) comprise four National Museums (Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum, and Kyushu National Museum) and two National Research Institutes for Cultural Properties (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, and Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties), as well as the International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) in Sakai City, for a total of seven institutions.
Last updated
July 20, 2026