This is a genuine natural gourd that resembles the gourd bottles used by some of the characters from Inuyasha.

During Inuyasha's, and his friend's fateful night in Togenkyo, they encounter Tokajin the Sage.
Tokajin uses an enchanted gourd bottle that looks almost identical to the gourd pictured here (no two gourds look exactly alike) to shrink and capture people who possess spiritual power.
Tokajin wants to feed these people that he stores temporarily inside his gourd bottle to a tree called Ninmenka that grows human faced fruit.
There is no danger of shrinking, or getting trapped inside these gourds.

Kagome is given a gourd bottle by a villager filled with a special restorative while they are traveling through an unexpected blizzard.
Most likely this special restorative is a type of saki.
Alcohol has always been used throughout the world for warming people when they are cold.
Also, Kagome explodes the gourd into flames on top of the snow/cold cat demon in order to defeat that adversary.
Alcohol of a high enough proof is flammable.
There isn't any drinking age for special restoratives in ancient Japan.
Please remember the drinking age for special restoratives is 21 in the USA.

WARNING!
Don't store anything liquid inside these gourds.
We have not treated the inside of these gourds with the natural preservatives necessary for containing liquid (the price would become much more expensive).
If you store liquid within these gourds they will rot.
If you drink liquid that has been stored in these gourds, you will almost definitely become ill - even if the liquid is a special restorative.

Gourd Bottle
PRICE $13.00
MODEL#GB

• 100% all natural dried gourd - will never decompose or rot
• Cork top
• Hemp twine tied around middle of gourd bottle is for carrying bottle on obi / belt
• No glues, artificial dyes, or synthetics are used
• We apply the same techniques used since ancient times to create this gourd bottle