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Tobacco pouch made from delightful Indian prints. Photo: Minamoto Tadayuki

Kyoto Women's University, Lifestyle Design Laboratory

Kyoto Women's University, Lifestyle Design Laboratory
Kyōto-shi, Japan

Both pouches were made from popular imported Indian thin cotton fabric hand-painted with exquisitely vibrant madder red and Indian blue. The wooden pipe case at the top comes with carvings and mother-of-pearl inlay, while the one below is a Nagato-tsutsu. Nagato is the name given to lacquered paper-string weaving. These are for women and accessories like these were popularly known as memochi (lit. ‘carried by women’).

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  • Title: Tobacco pouch made from delightful Indian prints. Photo: Minamoto Tadayuki
  • Subject Keywords: Edo-fukuromono, Fukuromono, Tokyo
  • Rights: © Kuipo Museum

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