o-mikidokkuri-nokuchisashi

Updated: June 1, 2025

These stoppers o-mikidokkuri-nokuchisashi may be made of brass, or of fine thin slips of wood jointed and bent into the singular form required. Properly speaking, the thing is not a real stopper, in spite of its name; its lower part does not fill the mouth of the jar at all: it simply hangs in the orifice like a leaf put there stem downwards.

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