Tabakoire (tobacco pouch)

A tobacco pouch made of "shobugawa", one of the traditional Japanese leathers. Generally, shobugawa has the motif of calamus (shobu in Japanese), but this pouch is decorated with horse patterns. The fitting metal of the pouch has the shape of hatchet and plum blossom. It was made by a representative craftsman Kagawa Katsuhiro. On the kiseruzutsu (Japanese pipe case) a mask used for no (traditional Japanese drama) is engraved . The letters above the mask show a part of no "Hachinoki". A pine can be seen on the reverse side of the fitting metal (cf. the picture below). This pine is also related to the no play.