Purse used for tea ceremony: wallet, wallet band with pouch, package of picks, kaishi papers, carrier with tassel, metal decoration A: Red, gold, white, black and silver brocade trifold wallet with mirror and interior and exterior pockets. The brocade design is cranes flying among gold clouds. The top front flap is trimmed with white silk piping; the inside is lined with orangey red silk. Formed with overlapping equal sized rectangular pieces which are stitched together with red silk thread (faggoting) in the center section to form the exterior pocket and the trifold structure. A mirror, visible through an oval opening, has been placed between the lining and wallet stiffener and a pocket has been created into the lower flap. B: Kaishi papers for tea ceremony sweets; 7 folded white papers are tucked into the outside pocket of the wallet. C: Sealed rectangular white paper envelope with wooden picks used for tea ceremony sweets. D: Brocade carrier--rectangular shaped flat brocade covered stiffened stick with a pocket lined in orangey red silk; orange silk knotted cord attached to a red loop at a corner edge of the stick, ending in a orange, gold and white silk thread tassel topped with a gold colored ball covered with a knotted orange silk thread mesh. E: Silver alloy ornament shaped like a hair pin--a coin shaped piece with butterfly and crysanthemum design on one side and crane and pine motif on the other from which 7 lengths of silver chain are suspended, ending in chrysanthemum shaped charms; soldered to the "coin" is a flat rectangular open bar with rounded ends. F: Brocade wallet band in same fabric as wallet is folded and tied with orange silk cord attached to a small pouch. The band is trimmed with white silk piping and lined with orangey red silk and stiffened and folded to hold the wallet closed. The pouch is made from the same fabric and is pleated at the top (tacked shut) and can be adjusted open or closed with the red plastic beads strung on the cord which is tied to the band and passed through holes in the pouch and tied into a decorative knot at the front; white piping around the top of the pouch.

1997.001.005