Antique Japanese Dried Bonito Wooden Box Drawer Shaver Plane Brown JK891 Mask Shinmei Jinja

Shinmei Jinja

5 cm wide x 15 cm tall

15 cm wide x 29 cm tall

79 cm long

but can also be positioned on its side for smaller arrangements

Antique Japanese Dried Bonito Wooden Box Drawer Shaver Plane Brown JK891 Mask Shinmei JinjaAntique Japanese Wooden Box Dried Bonito Shaver Plane This is an antique Japanese wooden box for a shaver or plane used to shave dried bonito and make bonito flakes, though it doesn't include a blade. It is a box with a drawer and has a square hole on the top. After setting a plane on the square hole and shaving dried bonito, the shavings are placed in the drawer. Many Japanese dishes use bonito flakes, such as making soup or Dashi, or as seasonings