docs(web): reframe the name around trust-based printed rice notes (no debt)

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## A Japanese name
**Tane** means "seed" (種); *tanemaki* (種まき) means "to sow seeds". And it's no accident
that the name is Japanese. In early Japan (8th10th centuries) there was the *suiko* (出挙):
rice from the granaries was lent out as seed in spring and returned in autumn, after the
harvest. It began as relief — giving grain to those who had none to sow — but it was repaid
with interest (from half as much again up to double the loan), and over time it hardened
into an obligation that left peasants in debt harvest after harvest. The same sack of rice
was at once seed, food and debt.
that the name is Japanese. Centuries ago in Japan, printed slips of paper that promised
rice passed from hand to hand: they were issued by temples, merchants and rice warehouses —
not by a bank or a central authority — and people accepted them on trust in that promise.
An exchange network with no centre, held together by trust, where a scrap of paper was
enough to set rice in motion.
Tane keeps that age-old gesture — lending seed and giving it back after the harvest — but
takes out the trap. When you share seeds you can attach a **Plantare**: a promise to
return, when you can, a similar amount of free seed. It is not a debt and carries no
interest: it is a pledge to keep the seed alive and moving. And because returning it means
growing it, and growing multiplies it, every loan makes the commons grow instead of
shrinking it.
Tane inherits that spirit. When you share seeds you can attach a **Plantare**: a promise to
return, when you can, a similar amount of free seed. It isn't a purchase or an obligation —
it's a commitment to keep the seed alive and moving. And because returning it means growing
it, and growing multiplies it, every gesture makes the commons grow instead of shrinking it.
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