-Trivia and Background information-
Hello. I’ll be quite busy until Friday, so here’s some behind-the-scenes stuff in the meanwhile.
>Amournnara’s itemsAmournnara’s pipe is a buyōkiseru, a type of Japanese smoking pipe (kiseru). Smoking tobacco were becoming popular in the 17th century, and all sorts of people carried kiseru; samurai, townsfolk, kabukimono, machi yakko (forerunners of the present-day yakuza)
This specific type is constructed of metal and much longer than most other fighting pipes (kenka kiseru), with the example in this website being 57 cm long and weighing 0.675 kg.
https://www.rosemarybandini.com/articles/buyokiseru/These longer, fighting pipes also saw use by the samurai during the 19th century; with the meiji restoration restricting swords to the military, they took to carrying the pipes instead. The shorter ones are used similarly to tessen (iron fan), being used to strike or hook limbs, while longer ones can be held bowl-forward, like a war club, or bowl behind the hand, like a baton. Demonstrated here:
https://youtu.be/e2Kcrhi3w_A?si=t2lwWHmaQHUkHYdeAmournnara’s knife set sheath is based on the black leather sheath with brass utensils from Tod’s workshop video:
https://youtu.be/JtzrF9xLBlY?si=pYtHD0yRAbMD43WaCarrying around your own eating utensils, and carrying knives in general was a practice done in the medieval and renaissance periods; here’s a reproduction of a bauernwehr (working knife), common to Germany and Switzerland from 14th-16th century.
https://todsworkshop.com/products/bauernwehr-circa-1400A “pricker” is an eating utensil that is essentially an icepick that’s slightly thicker. Pic related is a two-piece set from Tod’s workshop:
https://todcutler.com/products/15thc-medieval-knife-and-pricker-eating-set 