20 kome kitte, each mounted on a rectangular sheet of paper

by Kome Kitte 米切手, “Rice Certificates”

$1,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Each certificate 285 x 87 mm., written on one side only. Osaka: mid- to late Edo. Beginning in the early Edo period, feudal lords shipped their surplus rice to major commercial hubs, primarily Osaka, for storage at warehouses and sale. When Osaka rice brokers successfully bid on a crop of rice in storage, they were issued receipts called kome kitte, showing, usually in denominations of ten koku about 1.5 tons of rice, the warehouse’s name

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