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English: In other words, the government at the time also did not know the concrete amount of fake money coined, and even in the future, uncovering the whole truth would be difficult (even if 30 million ryo is exaggerated, the amount made clear presently is still close to 8 million ryo, and much more bad money and counterfeit money is thought to have been issued.)
Japanese: つまり、当時の政府もその具体額は把握しておらず、将来的にも全容を明らかにするのは困難である（3,000万両は過大であるとしても、現在明らかになっているだけで800万両近くあり、それを遥かに上回る金額の悪貨・贋貨が発行されたと考えられる）。
English: The circulation of great amounts of counterfeit money (including bad money issued by the government) made the prices destabilize and gave a bad influence on the economy.
Japanese: 大量の贋貨（政府発行の悪貨を含む）の流通は物価を不安定化させ経済にも悪影響を与えた。
English: Particularly, it was difficult for general merchants and people to distinguish real gold and silver coins from the fake, and there were foreign merchants who also acquired counterfeit money and suffered damage.
Japanese: 特に一般の商人や民衆には金銀貨の真贋を見分けることは難しく、外国商人の中にも贋貨を入手して損害を受ける者も出た。
English: Having the background of cooperating with the formation of the Meiji Government by supporting the Satsuma and Choshu Domain, Parkes realized that the Meiji Government was breaking the kaizeiyakusho and secretly coining bad money, but thought that leaving this matter alone would go against the profit of English merchants who were trading with Japan.
Japanese: パークスは薩摩藩・長州藩を支援して明治政府の成立に協力していた経緯があるだけに、政府が極秘で改税約書に違反した悪貨を鋳造していることに気づいていたが、これを放置しておくことは日本と貿易を行うイギリス商人の利益に反することであると考えていた。
English: Therefore, he hoped that the Meiji Government would carry out a currency reform immediately after the civil war ended.
Japanese: 従って、内乱が終結した後には直ちに明治政府が通貨改革を行うことを望んでいた。
English: On January 7, 1869, with the call of Parkes, ministers from France, America, Italy, and Germany successively demanded the new Japanese Government to take measures to wipe out the counterfeit money because 'since there are rumors that the new government (Meiji Government) are coining money that goes against the kaizeiyakusho, the market place for money is crashing and merchants are suffering damage.'
Japanese: 明治2年1月7日、パークスの呼びかけでフランス・アメリカ・イタリア・ドイツの各国公使が相次いで新政府に対して「新政府（明治政府）が改税約書に違反した通貨を鋳造しているという噂があるために通貨の相場が暴落して商人たちが損害を受けている」として贋貨一掃のための措置を採る事を要求した。
English: The Meiji Government was surprised with the sudden demand, but tried to make the vice foreign prefectural governor, Kiyokado KOMATSU (Tatewaki, a chief retainer of Satsuma Domain), deal with the problem for the time being.
Japanese: 明治政府は突然の要求に驚いたが取りあえず外国官副知事の小松清廉（帯刀・薩摩藩家老）に対応をさせようとした。
English: However, because KOMATSU became sick (suddenly died next year, at the age of 36), the man who KOMATSU recommended as his substitute was Shigenobu OKUMA from the Hizen Domain.
Japanese: ところが、その小松が病に倒れてしまった（翌年36歳で急死）ために、病床の小松が代役として推挙したのが肥前藩出身の大隈重信であった。
English: OKUMA was immediately appointed to vice foreign prefectural governor and counselor, and still more, he was ordered (January 12) to be sent to the finance office (the later Ministry of Finance).
Japanese: 大隈は直ちに外国官副知事兼参与に任じられ、更に会計官（後の大蔵省）への出向（1月12日）が命じられたのである。
English: However, as Emperor Meiji's Tokyo Gyoko (Emperor's going out to Tokyo) was nearing, OKUMA could not immediately move from Kyoto to Yokohama City where Parkes was, so he and others such as foreign governor Munenari DATE (Uwajima Domain) had a conference, resulting in an announcement to Japan and foreign countries on February 5, that they would issue new currency in the near future, and for Parkes, he instructed officer of Foreign Affairs Council Munenori TERASHIMA, who was also the governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, to appease.
Japanese: だが、明治天皇の東京行幸を目前に控えて大隈は直ちに京都からパークスのいる横浜市に動くことは出来ず、大隈は外国官知事伊達宗城（宇和島藩）らと協議の結果2月5日に内外に向けて近いうちに新貨幣を発行することを発表し、パークスには神奈川県知事を兼務していた外国官判事寺島宗則が宥めるように指示している。
English: However, this angered Parkes, and he sent a letter to the government on January 22 and 23 seeking an explanation for the circumstance again.
Japanese: だが、これがパークスを怒らせて1月22日と2月21日に改めて政府に事情説明を求める書簡を送っている。
English: Here, in the name of DATE, the government notified minsters from each country that Japan will not coin the current currency from now on (they did not formally recognize this as bad money violating the kaizeiyakusho), that the daijokan money would be used until the preparations for the new currency is completed, and that if organizations and individuals besides the daijokan coin currency, they will be subject to punishment, even if they are lords.
Japanese: そこで2月30日に伊達の名において各国公使に対して政府は現在の通貨（公式にはそれが改税約書違反の悪貨とは認めなかった）を今後は鋳造せずに新貨幣の準備が整うまでは太政官札で対応していくこと、太政官以外の組織・個人はたとえ諸侯であっても貨幣を鋳造するものは処罰の対象となることを通知したのである。
English: However, in reality, the Meiji Government at the time (before the return of lands and people to the emperor) did not have the authority to give orders to various domains (therefore the notice of Daijokan [Grand Council of State], which was more of a request, was issued instead of the edict of Daijokan, which was a command from the Meiji Government), and particularly the Satsuma and Tosa Domains used their position as a "victor country" and still continued to coin counterfeit money.
Japanese: だが、実際には当時（版籍奉還以前）の明治政府は諸藩に対して命令を下す権限を持っておらず（従って明治政府の命令である太政官布告ではなく、要請に近い太政官達が出されていた）、特に薩摩・土佐両藩は「戦勝国」の立場を利用してその後も贋貨を鋳造続けたのである。
English: Furthermore, Kosei YURI, the vice prefectural governor who promoted the the plan of the Dajokan-satsu as the inconvertible paper currency at the finance office, expressed his will to resign because of his dissatisfaction with the confrontation on the existing financial issues along with his dissatisfaction with the circumstances that the diplomatic issue had grown into a monetary reform which even involved the change of position of Dajokan-satsu.
Japanese: また、会計官では不換紙幣としての太政官札の企画を推進してきた副知事の由利公正が従来の財政問題を巡る路線対立に加えて、外交問題から太政官札の位置付け変更に踏み込んだ通貨改革の流れに発展してきたことに対する不満から辞意を表明していた。
English: Furthermore, when this series of exchange spread around Japan and foreign countries, people began to move on their various ideas, for example, merchants of Yokohama settlement held a meeting on February 28, and decided to seek compensation from the Meiji Government for the damage caused by counterfeit money, or some merchants started to buy up the counterfeit money which had slumped anticipating the next recall.
Japanese: 更にこうした一連の遣り取りが内外に伝わると2月28日には横浜居留地の商人たちが会合を開いて明治政府に贋貨によって生じた損害賠償を求める事を決議し、更に一部の商人が今後の回収に期待して暴落した贋貨を買い占めるなど様々な思惑が動き出し始めていた。
English: OKUMA, who entered Tokyo on March 18, talked with ministers of each country while hurrying to work out the counterfeit money disposal plan.
Japanese: 3月18日に東京に入った大隈は各国公使と会談する一方で、贋貨整理案の策定を急いだ。
English: As a result, they went as far as preparing for the first proclamation of their new policy such as 'decision to issue new currency, using the kinsatsu (Dajokan-satsu) as the same as a specie (in equal value), and the abolition of the market price of kinsatsu' on March 30, once permission from the Daijokan (Grand Council of State) was received.
Japanese: その結果、太政官の許可を得次第、3月30日（末日）をもって「新通貨の発行決定・金札（太政官札）を正貨同様の通用（等価化）・金札相場の廃止」という第1弾の新方針を布告する準備が整うまでに至った。
English: However, on the day before the declaration, the 29th, an opposing argument by the Daijokan was released so the declaration was canceled, and the express messenger who was in the middle of sending the declaration letter to Osaka, with the assumption that this declaration would be a formal decision, was called back to Tokyo.
Japanese: ところが、布告前日の29日になって太政官より反対論が出されて布告は中止されて、正式決定を前提として大阪に布告文を送付している途中であった飛脚が東京に呼び戻されることとなった。
English: On a letter OKUBO sent to Tomomi IWAKURA on this day, it said 'townspeople are foolish people, so if the Okami (political authorities) instructs them a little clearly, they will follow even if it was a hoax. (the gist)'
Japanese: この日、大久保が岩倉具視に対して送った書簡に「町人という者は浅墓なものなので、少しお上がハキハキと申し付ければ、如何様にも従うものである（要旨）。」
English: Like it says above, merchants were people who obediently followed the Okami (political authorities)'s orders, so OKUBO thought that if the Meiji Government, which was still feeble and did not have enough authority as the 'Okami' (political authorities) reformed the currency in a flurry, by doing so if in the worst case scenario, the orders did not get across, this would reveal the lack of 'people's trust' in the 'Okami' (political authorities) (Meiji Government) and their powerlessness to their own country and foreign countries, which would lead to the collapse of the government, therefore he considered the monetary reform was nonessential and nonurgent.
Japanese: このように、商人は「お上」の命に唯々諾々と従う存在であるのだから、政治的基盤が未だ脆弱で「お上」としての権威を十分に持っているとは言えない明治政府が慌てて貨幣改革を行うことによって、万が一命令が行き渡らずに「お上」（＝明治政府）に対する「万民の信」の無さと無力ぶりを内外に示すことになっては政権の崩壊につながると考え、通貨改革を不要不急のことと捉えていた。
English: Furthermore, OKUBO was still avoiding to reveal this at the time, but he was apprehensive about the response when the fact was made clear during the disposing process of counterfeit money that his own domain, the Satsuma Domain, was secretly making counterfeit money.
Japanese: 更に大久保は当時はまだ表にする事は避けていたものの、贋貨整理の過程で自分の出身である薩摩藩が秘かに贋貨を作っていた事実が内外に明らかになった時の反響を危惧していたのである。
English: OKUMA was disappointed with this situation, and on the 30th, he began to think about resigning his post as a finance office vice prefectural governor (successor to Yuri), which he held along with his present post.
Japanese: この状況に大隈は落胆し、30日に現職在任のままで兼務していた会計官副知事（由利の後任）を辞任することも考えるようになる。
English: KIDO found out about these circumstances, and on a letter dated April 17 which he entrusted Tomozane YOSHII and sent to OKUBO, he explained that the present situation of the currency circulation is 'totally paralyzed,' and that if this situation is left alone the Imperial Rule Restoration (Meiji Restoration) would not go as they wanted, along with indirectly saying that if the Satsuma Domain did not reveal by themselves the fact that they were manufacturing counterfeit money, the Satsuma Domain's reputation regarding the restoration would be ruined.
Japanese: 木戸はこの事情を知って、4月17日付で吉井友実に託して大久保に送った手紙において、貨幣の流通の現状は「全身不随」であり、このような状況を放置しては大政一新（明治維新）はままならないこと、そして遠回しながら薩摩藩が自ら贋貨製造の事実を明らかにしなければ、維新における薩摩藩の名声は地に落ちることになると説いた。
English: Two days following this, KIDO sent a separate letter to Tomomi IWAKURA, asking him to persuade OKUBO and helping OKUMA, saying that if the currency reform is not put through, the "people's trust" will be lost and Japan would be branded by foreign countries with fraud.
Japanese: 続いて2日後には岩倉具視にも別に書簡を送り、通貨改革を行なわなければ却って「万民の信」を失い、外国からは不正の汚名を着せられることになるとして、大久保に対する説得と大隈への助力を求めたのである。
English: Here, OKUBO became aware of the importance of the matter, and after consulting people from the Satsuma Domain such as YOSHII and Takamori SAIGO who was staying in Kagoshima City, OKUBO presented a petition individually, arguing that when 'your domain (the Satsuma Domain)' sacrifices its life to save the 'empire's (Japan) crisis,' then it becomes possible to 'preach the justice to the world' and he also insisted that by stopping the coining of counterfeit money and revealing the truth, the Satsuma Domain would be able to have an advantage over other domains.
Japanese: ここにおいて大久保も事の重大さを認識して、吉井や鹿児島市滞在中の西郷隆盛ら薩摩藩出身者と相談した上で大久保個人による形式で薩摩藩への建白書を提出して「皇国（日本）の安危興亡」を救うために「御国（薩摩藩）」が身を犠牲にすることで「天下に大義を唱える」ことが可能となることを論じて、直ちに贋貨鋳造を取りやめて事実を明らかにすることで、薩摩藩が他藩に対して優位に立てると主張したのである。
English: Also, because OKUBO withdrew his opposition to the currency reform declaration by OKUMA which he had canceled before, the reform was rescheduled to be issued on April 29.
Japanese: また、先に中止させた大隈による通貨改革の布告への反対を撤回したため、改めて4月29日をもって交付されることとなったのである。
English: Afterwards, various declarations concerning the currency reform were put out with OKUMA (on April 17 he became a full-time finance office vice prefectural governor, and on July 6, he transferred to Okura no taifu [a senior assistant minister of the Ministry of Treasury] due to the establishment of Ministry of finance) as the main leader.
Japanese: 以後、大隈（4月17日会計官副知事専任、7月6日大蔵省発足により大蔵大輔に移行）を主導として通貨改革に関する様々な布告が出されることとなる。
English: Decision to issue new currency, using the Kinsatsu (Dajokan-satsu) as the same as a specie (in equal value), and the abolition of the market price of kinsatsu.
Japanese: －新通貨の発行決定・金札（太政官札）を正貨同様の通用（等価化）・金札相場の廃止。
English: Forbid the exchange of kinsatsu/specie money (because they are equivalent), and forbid the naming 'Dajokan-satsu' (because this would lead to a misunderstanding that another organization that issues currency besides the Daijokan exists).
Japanese: －金札・正貨の交換を禁じ（等価であるため）、「太政官札」の呼称を禁じる（太政官以外に通貨発行機関が存在するとの誤解を与えるため）。
English: Money-exchange business and other exchanges by merchants using counterfeit money is strictly forbidden (the fact that Japan was coining and circulating counterfeit money would be announced to Japan and foreign countries).
Japanese: 両替商・その他商人は贋金による取引を一切禁じる（贋金が鋳造・流通している事実を内外に正式に公表する）。
English: The circulation of kinsatsu must not be prevented until the new currency is issued and is exchanged with the kinsatsu by 1872 (this is because the kinsatsu was a substitution of the specie until the new currency was issued).
Japanese: 明治5年までに新通貨を発行して金札との交換を行うまでの間、金札の流通を妨げてはならない（金札が新通貨発行までの正貨の代替となるため）。
English: Since kinsatsu in the three prefectures (Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka) was to be collected, and each prefecture would be issued 2,500 ryo for each stipend of ten thousand Goku crop yields, in twice of June and July, the specie which corresponds to this is to be payed to the finance office by the appointed time (it was silently accepted that the 'specie' in this case had counterfeit money mixed in it).
Japanese: －三都府（東京・京都・大阪）にある金札を回収して各府藩県に対して禄高1万石あたり2,500両分を6・7月の2回に分けて交付するので、それに相当する正貨を所定期間までに会計官に納付すること（この場合の「正貨」には贋金が混じっている事を黙認している）。
English: Now, since after the notification by the new government on February 30, the market price was steady for a while, Parkes decided to watch over the Meiji Government's policies, but after seeing that OKUMA's policy was more sudden than expected and after finding out through independent investigations that the amount of counterfeit money circulated by various domains was bigger than expected, he became worried that those things would be discarded after the return of lands and people to the emperor saying that 'it is unrelated to the new government.'
Japanese: さて、この2月30日の新政府からの通告以後、一旦は相場が安定してきたために明治政府の方針を見守ることにしていたパークスは、大隈の予想以上の急激な方針とその後の独自調査で予想以上に莫大な量が流通していることが判明した諸藩による贋貨が版籍奉還後に「新政府とは無関係である」と切り捨てられる事を憂慮していた。
English: England in particular had traded large amounts of money with the Satsuma Domain since the end of Edo period, and Parkes was cautious about the possibility that if the counterfeit money paid during this time was to become invalid, English merchants and businesses would suffer losses, and Japanese trade would fall into great confusion.
Japanese: 特にイギリスは幕末以来薩摩藩と多額の取引を行っており、その際に支払われた贋金が無効と言う事になれば、イギリスの商人や企業が打撃を受け、日本の貿易は大混乱に陥る事を警戒したのである。
English: Here, Parkes consulted with ministers of the other four countries, and on July 6, he sent a memorandum to the Meiji Government notifying their request for the government to hold a conference to confirm that the government would be able to carry out Okuma's policy, and also confirm what the government was going to do about the counterfeit money that the domains issued.
Japanese: そこでパークスは他の4国公使と協議して、7月6日に明治政府に対して覚書を送付して、政府が大隈の方針を貫徹出来るのか、そして諸藩が発行した贋貨について政府がどうするのかを確認するための協議を政府側と持つことを希望することを通知したのである。
English: On July 10, a preliminary meeting was held in the form of visit Parkes in British Embassy in Tokyo by Nobuyoshi SAWA, who assumed the position of chief of Foreign Ministry accompanying the reorganization to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, along with OKUMA, who similarly assumed the position of Okura no taifu (senior assistant minister of the Minister of Treasury) accompanying the reorganization to the Ministry of Finance.
Japanese: 7月10日、東京に置かれた英国大使館を外務省への改編に伴って外務卿に就任した澤宣嘉と同じく大蔵省への改編に伴って大蔵大輔に就任した大隈がパークスを訪問する形式で予備会談が行われた。
English: From Japan, the highest officials of Daijokan, Minister of the Right Sanetomi Sanjo, chief councilor of state Tomomi IWAKURA, chief of Foreign Ministry Nobuyoshi SAWA, Okura no taifu (senior assistant minister of the Ministry of Treasury) Shigenobu Okuma, and Gaimu-taifu (post of Foreign Ministry) Munenori Terashima attended, and Hirobumi ITO was the assistant.
Japanese: 日本側からは太政官の最高責任者であった右大臣三条実美・大納言岩倉具視・外務卿澤宣嘉・大蔵大輔大隈重信・外務大輔寺島宗則が出席し、伊藤博文がこれを補佐した。
English: The ministers on the other side were Parkes (England), オウトレ (France), Robert Van Valkenburg (America), コント・デ・ラ・ツール (Italy), and Max von ブライト (Germany).
Japanese: 対する公使側はパークス（イギリス）・オウトレ（フランス）・ロバート・ヴァン・ヴォールクンバーグ（アメリカ）・コント・デ・ラ・ツール（イタリア）・マックス・フォン・ブライト（ドイツ）であった。
English: According to the records written down during the negotiation that remains today, the negotiation was entirely in the hands of Parkes from start to finish, and he confronted the government with evidence indicating the fact that the Meiji Government coined bad money violating the kaizeiyakusho, and that domains coined counterfeit money (according to a part of the records, Parkes became worked up over an answer by the government which was off the point, and hit and broke a cup near him).
Japanese: 現在残されている談判に記した記録によれば、談判は終始パークスの独断場であり、明治政府が改税約書違反の悪貨を鋳造し、諸藩が贋貨を鋳造していたとする事実を示す証拠を次々と突きつけていった（一部記録によると政府側の要領を得ない回答に興奮して、傍にあったコップを叩き割ってしまったとされている）。
English: The Meiji Government refused to admit the fact that they coined bad money until the end for the sake of appearance, but they did admit the fact that several domains had coined counterfeit money.
Japanese: 明治政府は最後まで体面上悪貨鋳造の事実を認めることを拒否したが、複数の藩が贋貨を鋳造していた事実を認めた。
English: On the other hand, because Parkes ran the negotiation, the claim for loss put out by the French minister was virtually ignored, and objections to OKUMA's currency reform did not occur by the ministers or the heads of the Daijokan, such as SANJYO and IWAKURA, leading to an agreement from both Japan and foreign countries, and as a result the independent currency reform by the Meiji Government itself was accepted to take the shape of a policy in accordance with OKUMA's proposal.
Japanese: その一方で、パークスが談判を仕切ったためにフランス公使によって出された損害賠償要求は事実上無視され、大隈の通貨改革についての異論は公使達からも三条・岩倉ら太政官首脳からも出されること無く、内外からの承認を得る形となり、結果的には明治政府による自主的な通貨改革そのものについては、大隈案に沿った形での方針が認められることになったのである。
English: Afterwards, on July 19, the conference was held again at the same place with the same participants, but this ended with only adjustments of details such as concrete explanations of the implementation guidelines for matters decided during the last conference.
Japanese: その後、7月19日に場所と出席者はそのままで再度開催されたものの、それは前回決定された事項の具体的な実施要綱についての説明など細部の調整のみで終了している。
English: OKUMA's currency reform was recognized as the Meiji Government's policy along with as an international pledge for the moment, but to be realized, there were four problems.
Japanese: とりあえず、大隈の通貨改革は明治政府の方針、そして国際公約として認められたが、その実現までにはまだ4つの課題があった。
English: After the conference ended on the 19th, SAWA, OKUMA, and ITO immediately organized a team with young bureaucracy and influential money exchangers in Tokyo, and started conducting authenticity tests on foreigner's nibukin at open ports and markets.
Japanese: 19日の会談終了後、澤と大隈・伊藤は直ちに久世治作・上野景範・花房義質ら若手官僚と東京の有力両替商からなるチームを編成して全国の開港場・開市場で外国人の保有二分金の検勘を開始した。
English: For foreigners in Tokyo and Yokohama, the authenticity test for the nibukin they handed in through ministers of each country started on the 23rd, and the officials succeeded in finishing on the same day in Tokyo, and even in Yokohama, which was the Japan's leading trading port, they managed to finish by the 25th.
Japanese: 東京・横浜の外国人に対しては21日に各国公使を通じて提出させた二分金の検勘を23日より開始して、東京では同日中、日本屈指の貿易港であった横浜でも25日までに終わらせることに成功した。
English: In Osaka and Kobe, the money was handed in on the 25th, and went through the authenticity test on the 26th, in Nagasaki, the money was handed in on the 27th, and went though the authenticity test on the 28th, and in Niigata, the authenticity test was on August 3, and lastly, in Hakodate the authenticity test was on August 12.
Japanese: 大阪と神戸では25日に提出・26日に検勘、長崎では27日に提出・28日に検勘、新潟では8月3日に検勘、最後の函館では8月12日に検勘が行われた。
English: Through this, the Meiji Government showed the ministers and merchants from other countries that they were serious, along with not giving them time to bring back counterfeit nibukin which spilled abroad to Japan again to have it go through the authenticity test.
Japanese: これによって各国の公使や商人達に明治政府の本気ぶりを見せるとともに海外に流出した贋二分金を日本に再度持ち込ませて検勘を受けさせる時間的余裕を与えなかったのである。
English: Encapsulated counterfeit nibukin were exchanged for the specie money one by one at each open port and market from September to March of the next year.
Japanese: 封包した贋の二分金は9月より翌年3月にかけて各開港場・開市場で順次正貨に引き換えられた。
English: Foreign merchants were discontent with these drastic measures, but the movements such as asking for compensation for loss were put an end, because the ministers had accepted these measures, and also because, although they judged that it was not enough, they still received compensation through equivalent exchange with specie money.
Japanese: 外国商人達は日本側のこうした強硬なやり方に不満を抱いたものの、公使達がこれを受け入れていること、正貨との等価交換によって不十分ながらも補償を受けられたと判断されたことで損害賠償などを求める動きは一応収束することになった。
English: On August 24, the Satsuma Domain submitted a 'Jisojo' and in the following September the Tosa Domains followed.
Japanese: 8月24日、薩摩藩が「自訴状」を提出、続いて9月初旬には土佐藩もこれに続いた。
English: In response to this, OKUBO and SAIGO, and Takayuki SASAKI from the Tosa Domain asked for pardon for both countries, as the Satsuma and Tosa Domains surrendered themselves, and as both domains unavoidably issued counterfeit money, not for self-interest, but because of the necessity for armament supplies to realize the restoration,
Japanese: これを受けて大久保や西郷、土佐藩出身のの佐々木高行らは、薩摩・土佐両藩が自ら自首したこと、両藩は私利私欲のためではなく、維新実現のための軍備調達の必要からやむを得ず行ったことであるとして両藩への恩赦を求めたのである。
English: However, people from domains that were confirmed of having no truth in coining counterfeit money due to investigation, such as those from the Choshu or Hizen Domains, were offended by the fact that they supplied war expenditures at their own expense after sustained effort, while the Satsuma and Tosa Domains supplied them with illegal methods, and insisted that a penalty should be taken from both domains and that this should allot to the government funds for the exchange of counterfeit and specie money.
Japanese: だが、調査によって贋貨鋳造の事実が無い事が確認されていた長州藩や肥前藩出身者は、自分達は苦労の末に軍費を自前で調達したのに薩摩や土佐が違法手段で調達していたという事実に反発して、両藩から罰金を取ってそれを贋貨と正貨の引換の原資に充てるべきであると主張した。
English: However, when the jisojo from the Satsuma Domain was made known at shugiin on September 13, opinions from domains' representatives came up one after another asking for a gentle punishment appraising the honorable way the Satsuma and Tosa Domains confessed their misconduct voluntarily.
Japanese: だが、9月13日に薩摩藩からの自訴状が集議院（公議所の後身）で明らかにされると、諸藩の代表からは薩摩や土佐が自らの不祥事を告白した潔さを評価して穏便な処分を求める意見が相次いだ。
English: Additionally, other domains which were coining counterfeit money successively submitted a jisojo, fearing future problems that would occur in the case that they were exposed by the government later.
Japanese: 更に贋貨鋳造を行っていたその他の藩からも後日政府によって摘発された場合の後難を恐れて自訴状を出す藩が相次いだ。
English: Consequently, on April 29, 1870, the government pardoned the domains that had handed in the jisojo before then, and also decided to overlook the coining of counterfeit money done by the other domains before the end of the Hakodate War, including the Tonami Domain (the old Aizu Domain) which used to fight with the Meiji government.
Japanese: そこで翌明治3年4月29日に政府はそれまでに自訴状を提出した藩の贋貨鋳造を赦免し、またそれ以外の藩でも箱館戦争終結以前の贋貨鋳造行為に関してはかつて明治政府と戦った斗南藩（旧会津藩）なども含めてその罪を不問にするとした。
English: However, the Chikuzen Domain alone still continued to make counterfeit money by switching to forgery of the kinsatsu (Dajokan-satsu) even afterwards.
Japanese: ところが、筑前藩のみはこの後も金札（太政官札）の偽造に切り替えて贋貨作りを継続し続けた。
English: On July 2, 1871 (12 days before the abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures), the Chikuzen Domain, which was discovered, had to forfeit their Fukuoka-jo Castle 47 thousand koku since Yoshitaka KURODA, and was virtually changed its rank.
Japanese: 明治4年7月2日（廃藩置県の12日前）、その事実が発覚した筑前藩は黒田孝高以来の福岡城47万石を没収されて事実上改易されてしまうのである。