OUGD406 - Studio Brief 2 - Documentary Inspiration

After watching the 'Myth Hunters - The Shoguns Lost Treasure', I discovered that old buddhist and Japanese monks were usually payed in rice instead of gold coins. The documentary concluded by stating that the lost Japanese treasure probably didn't exist as the Monks and Shoguns back then did not use coins for currency and instead used rice. This could be transferred into my currency by using rice paper to honour the traditional historical currency system. It could also be a good material for production methods as there is lots of spare rice available in these countries if the buddhist currency was to go into mass production by the monks.