Tsuzura clothes box with lid, Koka City Collection, Minakuchi Handicraft

A tsuzura basket is a basket for putting clothes in that is woven from a type of vine called aotsuzura (Cissus disolor). Like in the Japanese fairytale. The Tongueless Sparrow where the protagonist had to choose between a light and a heavy tsuzura basket, this type of basket was once a daily necessity. The name tsuzura first appeared in Munakuchijuku in the land ledger Tsuzuramachi devised in 1602. It is likely that tsuzura baskets were already being produced around that time.