Жапондық дәстүрлі дәрі-дәрмек сақтағыш қорапша (Inrō)

Traditional Japanese pillbox or case

An is a traditional Japanese case for holding small objects, suspended from the (sash) worn around the waist when wearing a kimono. They are often highly decorated with various materials such as lacquer and various techniques such as , and are more decorative than other Japanese lacquerware. The term is a combination of the kanji for (印), which means a seal or stamp, and the kanji for (籠), which means a basket.

Consisting of a stack of tiny, nested boxes, were most commonly used to carry medicine. The stack of boxes is held together by a cord that is laced through cord runners down one side, under the bottom, and up the opposite side. The ends of the cord are secured to a , a kind of toggle that is passed between the sash and pants and then hooked over the top of the sash to suspend the An bead is provided on the cords between the and to hold the boxes together. This bead is slid down the two suspension cords to the top of the to hold the stack together while the is worn, and slid up to the when the boxes need to be unstacked to access their contents. are mostly made from paper, wood, metal, or ivory, with the most common material being paper. Paper are made by winding and hardening many layers of paper with lacquer; paper was a popular material for as unlike wood, it would not distort and crack over time. Today, many are collected in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Because were popular among foreign collectors, there were few of the highest quality made from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period in Japan, but Masayuki Murata actively collected them from the 21st century, and today the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum, which he manages, houses many of the highest quality Nowadays, are rarely worn as kimono accessories, but there are collectors all over the world.