Japanese leather

Small Japanese leather goods, most of them closing with a kiss lock frame, which in Japan is called a gamaguchi. The word means toad's mouth, for the way the frame opens wide, and it shuts again when the two small balls on top pass each other with a click.

The coin purse and the necklace purse come from Kanmi in Asakusa, Tokyo's leatherworking district, a workshop that makes nothing but clasp purses. The wildflower wallet is from Zucchero in Osaka, in oil-shrink cowhide with the brass left bright. The key clip is from Asakusa Bunko, who began as kimono makers in 1983 and now paint yuzen by hand onto white-tanned Himeji leather.

Everything here is cowhide, sized for coins, a key or a few cards rather than everything you own.