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    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...
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    Kairi Netsuke (born 19 August 2003) is a Japanese skateboarder. He is a World Skateboarding Championship silver medalist. In December 2023, he competed...
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    bottom, and up the opposite side. The ends of the cord are secured to a netsuke, a kind of toggle that is passed between the sash and pants and then hooked...
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    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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    screen depicting Raijin (left) and Fūjin (right), by Tawaraya Sōtatsu. Netsuke depicting Raijin, by Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (1813-1892) Okimono depicting...
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    History of Shutendoji International Netsuke Society, official website Boris Filatov's Private Collection of Netsuke Archived 2020-08-17 at the Wayback...
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    Japanese) are believed to grant good luck and are often represented in netsuke and in artworks. One of the seven (Jurōjin) is said to be based on a historical...
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    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...
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    okimono may be a small Japanese carving, similar to, but larger than netsuke. Unlike netsuke, which have a specific purpose, okimono are purely decorative and...
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    graffito On a teru teru bōzu On a scarecrow An early example as a detail on a netsuke from the 19th century ASCII art Cool S Emoticon Smiley Tête à Toto "Let's...
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    Japanese 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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    length. Each is carved into a particular shape and image, similar to the netsuke, though smaller. It is used to fasten the cord of the inrō so that it does...
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    The Hare with Amber Eyes (category Netsuke)
    including priceless artwork; an easily hidden collection of 264 Japanese netsuke miniature sculptures was saved, tucked away inside a mattress by Anna,...
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    Objet d’art: A netsuke ivory carving from Japan, c. 18th or 19th century, coloured with black ink...
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    Netsuke of a kappa...
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    "Researcher created the world's smallest snowman". 23 December 2016. "Netsuke in the form of a boy rolling a yuki daruma, or snowman". collections.ashmolean...
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    Jurojin. Netsuke....
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    Government. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shisa. Image of a shisaa Netsuke: masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an exhibition catalog...
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    rings, 153 drinking vessels, 512 pieces of continental porcelain, 1,500 netsuke, 850 inro, over 30,000 bookplates and miscellaneous items of jewellery...
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    2021-12-14. Retrieved 2020-12-16. Ryūjin shinkō, Encyclopedia of Shinto Netsuke: masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an exhibition catalog...
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    Ofukei ware, Toyoraku ware, Sasashima ware and Kawana ware were produced. Netsuke artists such as Tametaka and Ikkan were well known during the Edo period...
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    of the finest surviving pieces from Kyoto, porcelain including Imari, Netsuke, woodblock prints including the work of Andō Hiroshige, graphic works include...
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    Journal. No. 2. 1978. p. 88. Retrieved 16 June 2021. "- YouTube". YouTube. Netsuke: masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an exhibition catalog...
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  • Dubai Park winners: Danny León (m) / Naia Laso (w) Street winners: Kairi Netsuke (m) / Liz Akama (w) Triple Crown November 25 – December 3, 2023: 2023 UK...
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    number of people who wore kimono decreased, so the craftsmen who made netsuke and kiseru with ivory and wood lost their demand. Therefore, they tried...
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    blog about the adventures of a Foo Dog statue all over the United States. Netsuke: masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an exhibition catalog...
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    Oni being captured by Shōki, the Demon Queller. 19th Century netsuke. Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm....
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    sculptor specialising in the Japanese art form of netsuke. One of a handful of non-Japanese carvers of netsuke, Lamb has built a reputation since the 1980s...
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    Japanese netsuke – miniature ivory and wood sculptures traditionally used as toggles on men's kimono, to attach carrying pouches. The collection of netsuke were...
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