A group of five kayaku-ire [gunpowder flasks] and thirteen yanone [arrow heads] with decorative wood stand | Edo period, 18th – 19th century

A group of five kayaku-ire [gunpowder flasks] and thirteen yanone [arrow heads] with decorative wood stand

Edo period, 18^th – 19^th century

the group of five gunpowder flasks of various forms, comprising a double gourd flask decorated in a reddish-brown lacquer, one in the form of a turtle with stag antler stopper, and netsuke, a cylindrical flask of bamboo decorated in black lacquer with attached leather musket ball pouch (tama-ire) containing lead pellets, a circular flaks with bamboo stopper, and a flask in black lacquer with black lacquer stopper; the group of arrowheads of various forms, incl: watakushi, karimata, yanagi-ba and togari-ya, variously pierced, some with sakura mon [cherry blossom crests] and inome-bori [stylised boar’s eye], with decorative wood stand

7.5 cm., 3 in. (the smallest gunpowder flask); 17 cm., 6⅝ in. (the larges gunpowder flask)

Each approx. 24 cm., 9½ in. (the arrowheads)

61.5 cm., 24¼ in. (the wood stand)