[The way for carrying medicine and its containers (VII): "Packaging art in the Edo Period (1600-1867)"].

A metallic phial with screw cap and an Inro containing 6 glass phials were used as medicine containers for carrying medicines in the Edo period. These samples are exhibited at "Mizutani Inro Collection", which is famous for having a lot of Inro in Hyogo, Japan. On packaging art for medicines, there were two streams in the Edo period. The one is to use tight containers for carrying medicines which were brought from Western Europe and the other is to use well closed containers for crude drugs which were traditionally used in our country and China. These containers are chosen reasonably in accordance with a kind of medicine.