Tobacco pouch and kiseru pipe

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Tobacco Pouch 刻み煙草入れ



They were a necessity of the gentleman during the Edo period and come in many varieties.
Some have a Daruma as a decoration clip, some have a Daruma as a Netsuke.

One in the ..... Mini Gallery

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Japanese forms of smoking accessories

Tobacco made its earliest appearance in human culture amid the highly developed pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas. During the sixteenth century, the plant and its uses became known in other parts of the world as well. About 1600, tobacco arrived in Japan, where it led to the creation of new and artistically significant forms of material culture.

Tobacco pouches

Tobacco pouches began as simple portable contains for small amounts of tobacco, but their usefulness and efficiency were increased when ways were devised to combine them with pipe-cases and other practical or ornamental components.
During the Edo period,two general categories could be differentiated according to the ways in which they were worn.

"Hanging" tobacco-pouches were slung from the narrow sashes worn by men of the plebeian classes at the time, while "pocket" cases, carried in the upper folds of the kimono, were more practical for women and for male members of the upper social strata.

©　Tobacco and Salt Museum With more details on Smoking Utensils !

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Here is one with a Daruma Netsuke.

About 24 cm wide. Netsuke about 1 cm only.






Photo from my friend Ishino.

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Daruma on a tobacco pouch with a tobacco pipe holder.

The second picture shows our Daruma with his open mouth.
http://www.antikpfeifenboutique.de/page_26.pdf


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The long pipes for smoking, kiseru 煙管


Kiseru pipes (Edo period) As tobacco-shredding techniques became more refined, pipe-bowls grew smaller, and pipe-stems were shortened, resulting in a more readily portable pipe form.
Metal fittings were often decorated with engraving, while the embellishment of pipe-stems with lacquer-painting further enhanced the value of kiseru pipes as personal accessories.
While standard kiseru had bamboo stems garnished with metal bowls and mouth-pieces, some more extra-vagant kiseru were made entirely of metal.
Other materials in use included wood, porcelain, glass, and stone.
　© www.jti.co.jp/Culture/



花さくや伊達に加へし空ぎせる
hana saku ya date ni kuwaeshi kara giseru

cherry blossoms--
playing the dandy, in my mouth
an empty pipe


加へぎせる無用でもなし門柳
kuwae giseru muyô de mo nashi kado yanagi

pipe in my mouth--
smoking's allowed here
by my gate's willow


Issa
More PIPE haiku ...
Tr. David Lanoue




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kigo for mid-autumn

omoigusa 思草 (おもいぐさ) "remembering plant"
..... nanbangiseru, nanban kiseru 南蛮煙管（なんばんぎせる）
"pipe of Southern Babarians"

kiserugusa, kiseru kusa きせる草（きせるぐさ）
"kiseru pipe plant"
Aeginetia indica





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