A GROUP OF LEATHER CONTAINERS

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A GROUP OF LEATHER CONTAINERS
Edo Period (19th Century)
Comprising six lacquered hide doran [ammunition boxes] for powder and bullets, five with gold mon [see 1 below] and on pair with ten bamboo hyago [quick-coaching tubes] in each; two red lacquered hiuchi-dogu [ammunition cases, see 2 below]; three lacquered hide equipment bags, one with a net on the exterior, and a cylindrical case; two belt pouches for matchlock balls and two larger pouches with ivory netsuke and two cartridge bandoliers, one of leather, the other of plaited and woven straw and string (17)

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1 For similar example, see Sugawa Shigoe, The Japanese Matchlock [English Edition] (Tokyo, 1991), pp.54-56.
2 For similar example, see ibid., p.51.

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