docs(web): reframe the name around trust-based printed rice notes (no debt)
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## A Japanese name
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**Tane** means "seed" (種); *tanemaki* (種まき) means "to sow seeds". And it's no accident
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that the name is Japanese. In early Japan (8th–10th centuries) there was the *suiko* (出挙):
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rice from the granaries was lent out as seed in spring and returned in autumn, after the
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harvest. It began as relief — giving grain to those who had none to sow — but it was repaid
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with interest (from half as much again up to double the loan), and over time it hardened
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into an obligation that left peasants in debt harvest after harvest. The same sack of rice
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was at once seed, food and debt.
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that the name is Japanese. Centuries ago in Japan, printed slips of paper that promised
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rice passed from hand to hand: they were issued by temples, merchants and rice warehouses —
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not by a bank or a central authority — and people accepted them on trust in that promise.
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An exchange network with no centre, held together by trust, where a scrap of paper was
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enough to set rice in motion.
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Tane keeps that age-old gesture — lending seed and giving it back after the harvest — but
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takes out the trap. When you share seeds you can attach a **Plantare**: a promise to
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return, when you can, a similar amount of free seed. It is not a debt and carries no
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interest: it is a pledge to keep the seed alive and moving. And because returning it means
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growing it, and growing multiplies it, every loan makes the commons grow instead of
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shrinking it.
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Tane inherits that spirit. When you share seeds you can attach a **Plantare**: a promise to
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return, when you can, a similar amount of free seed. It isn't a purchase or an obligation —
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it's a commitment to keep the seed alive and moving. And because returning it means growing
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it, and growing multiplies it, every gesture makes the commons grow instead of shrinking it.
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## Where it stands and how to help
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