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Yatate with design of woodgrain pattern

  2020-12-04

The jar-shaped ink container is unusual, and the brush case is decorated using an arashi tagane chisel on brass. This is an important piece given that sword fitting techniques were used in the chiseling.


This is proof of the stories one hears that, in the latter part of the Edo period, sword craftsman were involved in the manufacture of daily items such as Portable Writing sets (Yatate) or smoking pipes.

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