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Netsuke
Netsuke Net"su*ke, n. [Jap.]
In Japanese costume and decorative art, a small object carved
in wood, ivory, bone, or horn, or wrought in metal, and
pierced with holes for cords by which it is connected, for
convenience, with the inro, the smoking pouch (tabako-ire),
and similar objects carried in the girdle. It is now much
used on purses sold in Europe and America.
Meaning of Netsuke from wikipedia
- Katabori-
netsuke front and rear view with two
holes for cord Anabori-
netsuke Mask
netsuke Ryūsa-
netsuke Manjū-
netsuke Kagamibuta-
netsuke Trick netsuke Obi-hasami...
- to
depict erotic relations between a
woman and an octopus. Some
early netsuke carvings show
cephalopods fondling nude women. Hokusai's
contemporary Yanagawa...
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including priceless artwork; an
easily hidden collection of 264 ****anese
netsuke miniature sculptures was saved,
tucked away
inside a
mattress by Anna,...
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screen depicting Raijin (left) and Fūjin (right), by
Tawaraya Sōtatsu.
Netsuke depicting Raijin, by
Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (1813-1892)
Okimono depicting...
- article: The Ogre of
Rashomon Legend and
History of
Shutendoji International Netsuke Society,
official website Boris Filatov's
Private Collection of
Netsuke...
- bottom, and up the
opposite side. The ends of the cord are
secured to a
netsuke, a kind of
toggle that is p****ed
between the sash and
pants and then hooked...
- 115. Ishibashi, Tanzan. The
Oriental Economist,
Volume 43. p. 45. The
netsuke handbook.
Reikichi Ueda. p. 175.
Media related to
Kanabo at
Wikimedia Commons...
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Monumenta Nipponica,
Volume 16, pp. 71–73 Karl M. Schwarz,
Netsuke Subjects: A
Study on the
Netsuke Themes with
Reference to
Their Interpretation and Symbolism...
- ****anese wood-block
prints (see illustration) and in shrine, temple, and
netsuke carvings.
Writing in the
Meiji period,
Lafcadio Hearn (1902) described...
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Netsuke of a kappa...
