vintage japanese wooden tags

These vintage Japanese wooden tags have hidden history. Wooden tags have a storied past in Japan, used for a range of purposes such as military identification, demarcating farm stock, or tied glass floats to mark fishing nets. What purpose could these have once served...

Each tag features black calligraphy on one side and an embossed seal on the reverse. Due to their hand-crafted nature, each will vary slightly but is still beautiful in its own way.