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...

article: The Ogre of Rashomon Legend and History of Shutendoji International Netsuke Society, official website Boris Filatov's Private Collection of Netsuke...

screen depicting Raijin (left) and Fūjin (right), by Tawaraya Sōtatsu. Netsuke depicting Raijin, by Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (1813-1892) Okimono depicting...

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...

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...

to depict erotic relations between a woman and an octopus. Some early netsuke carvings show cephalopods fondling nude women. Hokusai's contemporary Yanagawa...

115. Ishibashi, Tanzan. The Oriental Economist, Volume 43. p. 45. The netsuke handbook. Reikichi Ueda. p. 175. Media related to Kanabo at Wikimedia Commons...

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...

including priceless artwork; an easily hidden collection of 264 Japanese netsuke miniature sculptures was saved, tucked away inside a mattress by Anna,...

Japanese wood-block prints (see illustration) and in shrine, temple, and netsuke carvings. Writing in the Meiji period, Lafcadio Hearn (1902) described...