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FIVE KISERUZUTSU [PIPECASE] AND TABACO-IRE [TOBACCO POUCH]
Edo Period (19th Century)
The first set with a bamboo muso-zutsu form pipecase, with a hard stone ojime, and a leather tabaco-ire with floral designs, shakudo clasp; the second set a muso-zutsu form pipecase, woven in eight different materials of various geometric patterns, with a leather pouch with metal clasp, ivory and coral ojime; the third set with an ivory muso-zutsu form pipecase, carved as a bamboo node, the red and white fabric pouch with a shakudo [copper-gold alloy] clasp, coral ojime; the fourth set with an ivory muso-zutsu form pipecase, coral ojime, with a leather pouch with metal clasp, the back plate with signature Masayoshi; the fifth a lacquer muso-zutsu form pipecase, black lacquer ground inlaid with a poem in mother of pearl, tooth ojime, leather pouch with a gilt metal clasp of a figure (5)

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