Accessories for the Tanegashima

[Matsunoki]

B4me🙂

[Bugyotsuji]

And one other. So many of these powder flasks, small and large, have lost their original caps, up to 40 or 50% of the ones I have found in antiques markets.
 

 

 

[John C]

Saw this on auction listed as "hinawa gunball case." Looks a lot like a tabako-ire pouch to me. What features differentiates a gunball pouch from a tabako-ire pouch?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/168018118739?

 

John C.

[Bugyotsuji]

John, I think you are correct. That is for brushwriting paper, a billfold or a tabako-iré for tobacco, but it’s a nice old lacquered leather example! Always nice to have lettering and/or a mon.

Musket ball were downloaded from an ammo box, and then generally carried individually in small leather pouches, usually attached somehow to powder flasks. Many of these pouches had Karasu-guchi mouths, crow-beak dispensers. I’ll take some photos in a minute.

 

Assorted ball pouches and crow beaks

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Of course it’s possible they are thinking of Dōran hip boxes or bags for hayago quick-loading tubes and gunner’s accessories, but these have 3D depth to them for the tools.

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Ball molds Tama-Igata of various sizes. 
Lead ball, range up to 100 Monmé.

Lead ladle 玉鋳鍋 Tama-inabé

(Various chunks of lead for melting)