Smoking Set with Noh Masks

18th-19th century

14 cm 10.5 cm

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The Spanish conquests of the Americas introduced tobacco to Europe in the 16th century. Later that century, Spanish or Portuguese merchants introduced tobacco into Japan—it served both a medicinal purpose as well as for recreation, and soon smoking became a very popular habit...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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