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2021.08.24
By Sakuan Izumi
"Will you give me a minute, please? I’m sure I had it with me."
"It’s okay if you haven’t got it. Anyway, where did these things come from? I thought you had nothing on you when we left."
【Pouches】
In the Edo period, people used hakoseko and tamoto-otoshi to carry kaishi, double-folded traditional Japanese paper, and cosmetics. Tamoto-otoshi consists of two pouches attached to each end of a string hanging around the neck, a convenient product allowing easy access to items from both sleeves.