Stuff like this is always fascinating to me. We think of this piece being so aged, but this was well after the tobacco trade was established widely to make it enough of a custom in Japan to have things like this. Japan, who had been famously isolationist until the 1850’s. This piece acquired some 40 years later.
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Stuff like this is always fascinating to me. We think of this piece being so aged, but this was well after the tobacco trade was established widely to make it enough of a custom in Japan to have things like this. Japan, who had been famously isolationist until the 1850’s. This piece acquired some 40 years later.