yatate
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thumb|Ink box and pen compartment of an Edo-period . are small personal smoking-pipe-shaped writing sets from medieval Japan which provided a carrying box for the ink cotton, and a shaft for a brush (and possibly a letter opener).
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thumb|Ink box and pen compartment of an Edo-period . are small personal smoking-pipe-shaped writing sets from medieval Japan which provided a carrying box for the ink cotton, and a shaft for a brush (and possibly a letter opener).
==Usage== literally means "quiver". The name comes from the practice of early who kept ink stones inside their quivers.
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