Antique Japanese Meiji Era (1868-1912) Hakari Tenbin Balance Weight 400g Embroidery Width = 16 1/2"

Width = 16 1/2"

To make ink pour a small amount of water on to the high flat part of a slate ink stone (available here at Japanpicker and from Shoguns)

It has a silver and wood mouth piece and bronze bowl with bamboo center

Having been well used for nearly two centuries these chairs are in good usable condition

though typically created anonymously

Antique Japanese Meiji Era (1868-1912) Hakari Tenbin Balance Weight 400g Embroidery Width = 16 1/2"This is an antique Japanese balance scale (hakari) weight dating to the Meiji Era (1868 1912). It has Japanese writing on one side and a shop logo on the other. It is bell shaped with a lanyard ring at the top to adjust up and down a pole scale. Seen in the last picture is a bar or pole scale (not included) similar to the one which would have originally been used a similar weight. Height = 2. 5" (6. 5cm) Diameter = 1. 75" (4. 5cm) Weight = 392g With