A Pieced Komebukuro or Rice Bag: Hand Written Dedication Label

This lovely and elegant drawstring bag is hand sewn from about 14 pieces of hand loomed Japanese cottons.  The cotton drawstring seems original to the bag.

This kind of piece-constructed, drawstring bag is often referred to as a komebukuro. 

Komebukuro are bags that were used to bring token offerings of uncooked rice or beans to a temple or shrine festival, the piecing and patching often being thought-out and planned, for festive effect.  

This bag is special because of its handwritten tag that says that the bag is filled with one "masu" or measure of dried rice donated to a temple and then it lists the names of the donors.

 A charming bag, it is one that shows a really lovely and good range of hand loomed cottons that are all of good color tone--it is an object that beautifully recalls the spirit of old Japan and one that has the added bonus of a personalized inscription.