A Pale Toned Sakabukuro: Beautiful Mending and Stitching

early to mid twentieth century
31" x 9 3/4", 79 cm x 24.5 cm

A sakabukuro is a straining bag or filter used in sake production. Crude sake, or sake lees, is poured into this bag. The sealed bag is then subjected to the force of great pressure and the sake is filtered out of the this strainer.

This particular sakabukuro is made of a kind of commercially produced cotton canvas which has been saturated with kaki shibu, or green persimmon tannin and shows a relatively pale brownish tone.

But please pay special attention to the beautiful hand stitched mending and the long, dark toned patch.

In addition to this utterly delightful mending please note the bag is lightly sprayed with slightly darkened spotted stains.

Just lovely.