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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 25478522, member: 102103&quot;]It&#039;s a bit complicated.&nbsp; Gold, silver and copper were all used as money.</p><p>I believe the primary unit of account was the &quot;koku&quot; of rice, though.</p><p>I remember reading &quot;Musui&#039;s Story,&quot; the autobiography of a late-Tokugawa samurai.</p><p>Big accounting matters were usually defined in koku of rice, but for things like purchases while traveling he would use copper coins.</p><p>I suspect the gold and silver rectangles were more for wealth storage than as an everyday unit of exchange.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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