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I am sure that hemp was well known in Japan – all those ships needed rigging after all – but do you think that the leaves depicted on this tsuba (see link) are really cannabis?

 

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BTW judging by the centering of the nakago-ana, the maker of the tsuba must have been a heavy user of the stuff... ;-)
 

 

P.S. note once again how, in typical Catawiki fashion, the material is proudly described as "Cast iron"

 

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