
Leather and brass tobacco pouch with attached bamboo pipe case. Black leather rectangular pouch with flap. Embossed pattern of pine trees and cranes and river, symbolic of long life. Silver gilt fitting on outside of flap depicts turtle and the character for 'happiness'. Inside the pouch are seeds. Attached to pipe case with ojime in the form of a cylindrical silver tube which has a raised motif of bamboo in a snow roundel (yukiwa) and a crest and clouds. The boxwood pipe case has an incised character meaning 'rice field' - it is a Japanese name and is probably the maker's mark. Also a decorative motif of an orchid. Pouch 80 h x 105 w; case 225 x 30.