At that time in Japan, rice and cloth were the popular items to exchange as material money, because then-current society of Japan had not reached yet to the economic level to necessiate money currencies, and therefore circulation of money was limited to the Kinai area (countries near Kyoto.) |
当時の日本は米や布などの物品貨幣が一般的であり、社会経済水準が貨幣を必ずしも要していなかったため、畿内とその周辺国以外にはあまり普及しなかったとも考えられる。 |