Japan

35 chapters in all · about 4 h 33 min

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All chapters (35)

1. Before the coin　about 3 min
2. The Jinshin War　about 9 min
3. The Wadō kaichin　about 6 min
4. The copper that cast the Great Buddha　about 8 min
5. The twilight of the twelve coinages　about 11 min
6. The country that threw away its coinage　about 10 min
7. The coin comes again　about 6 min
8. Kiyomori and the sickness of coin　about 5 min
9. The Jishō–Juei War　about 8 min
10. The Jōkyū War　about 8 min
11. The coin of Kamakura　about 4 min
12. The Mongol invasions　about 11 min
13. The Kenmu Restoration　about 8 min
14. The coin crosses the sea　about 5 min
15. The Ōnin War and the coin　about 9 min
16. When temples were banks　about 9 min
17. The age of picking coin　about 4 min
18. Zipangu, the land of silver　about 5 min
19. The gun and the cross　about 8 min
20. Nobunaga　about 10 min
21. Gold and invasion　about 9 min
22. The price of the realm　about 7 min
23. The realm of three coinages　about 7 min
24. The Shimabara Rebellion and the closing of the country　about 9 min
25. The century of recoinage　about 7 min
26. Famine and the smashing of houses　about 12 min
27. A town of cash, a country of paper　about 4 min
28. The black ships and the outflow of gold　about 3 min
29. The upheaval at the end of the shogunate and the counterfeit coin　about 11 min
30. The birth of the yen　about 4 min
31. The Satsuma Rebellion and inflation　about 12 min
32. The costs of the wars with China and Russia　about 11 min
33. The wartime boom, the earthquake and the crash　about 10 min
34. From the lifting of the gold embargo to war　about 7 min
35. From reconstruction to the palm of the hand　about 9 min

The history of money in Japan, read chapter by chapter with illustrated scenes. Narration is available too. The first chapter is open to all.