docs(web): ground the name in the suiko rice-seed loan, Plantare as its inverse
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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 much of rural Japan, farming life rested on mutual aid —
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*yui* (結): neighbours lent one another their labour, and their seed and rice too. Whoever
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received grain or seed in a hard year gave it back after the harvest — a little of the
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much that seed had multiplied. That way the common stock never ran dry: every loan, once
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grown, gave back more than it took.
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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 very idea is the heart of Tane. When you share seeds you can attach a **Plantare**: a
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promise to return, when you can, a similar amount of free seed. It isn't a debt — it's a
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pledge to keep the seed alive and moving. And because returning it means growing it, and
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growing multiplies it, every loan makes the commons grow instead of shrinking it.
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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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## Where it stands and how to help
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