Jess and Ivy are celebrating their Asian heritage. Jess is wearing a beautiful kimono, obi, and komageta from Etsy shop VeryFashionableDolls. Ivy looks amazing in American Girl’s Butterfly Brocade outfit. They are posing with my mother’s collection of netsukes, a cloisonné ginger jar, a small brass tiger, and a tiny tree made with white stones.
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Hen and Chicks by Yamaguchi Okatomo, mid- to late 18th century
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Netsuke Raven Perched on a Skull, Asahi Gyokuzan, Mid 19th Century
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meditating skeleton netsuke
Meiji-period Japan
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Pigeon-Shaped Flute (Japan, mid-19th century) by Ōhara Mitsuhiro (Japan, 1810-1875).
Ivory with staining.
Image and text information courtesy LACMA.
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Netsukes
New item:
First published in 1924, no book had ever before emerged dealing with Netsukes, one of the most fascinating and interesting forms of expression of the Japanese in art. Netsukes are the exquisitely carved and infinitely varied little knobs used by the Japanese to keep from slipping all kinds of articles which are hung from girdles. For collectors who cannot afford originals in most of the arts, Netsukes offer an alluring field. Here is a branch in which originals are accessible. The Netsuke is a work of art that can only exist once in this world. It is found in Japan only and like the leaves of the trees, there are never two pieces of it alike. This book describes, in a fascinating way, whether you are a collector or the subject is new to you, the use and various kinds of Netsukes, the method of their carving, their subjects, the many extant collections, their history and their mythology.
Shelf: 755.4 BRO
Netsukes.
by Albert Brockhous ; translated by M. F. Watty ; edited by E. G. Stillman.
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018.
ISBNs: 9781138606340 (paperback) ;9781138606296 (hardcover)
175 pages ; 22 cm.
(Routledge revivals)
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents:
Use and kinds of netsukes
The carving of netsukes
Netsuke subjects
Netsuke collections
The history of netsukes
Artists' signatures
Mythological subjects
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Netsuke are miniature sculptures originating in 17th-century Japan. These are just four quirky examples that caught our eye, but you can find nearly 4,000 open images on JSTOR of these beautiful objects.
PS The second image is of Tanuki, a mischievous raccoon dog in Japanese mythology commonly associated with excessive drinking and gluttony. This ivory netsuke depicts Tanuki carrying, um, his grossly enlarged scrotum.
The three images with black backgrounds come from the Wellcome Collection and the white one is from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, two open access collections on JSTOR.
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Today's mice are the mice on this netsuke!
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Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (1813–1892)
"No Evil" Monkey
Wine-colored amber
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection (AC1998.249.87)
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Fantastic metalwork netsuke by Wanausagi, representing a miniature picnic box complete with juubako (multi-tiered bento box) and bottles!
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netsukes
Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (Japanese, 1813-1892) - Sleeping Cat - ivory with sumi, red pigment - latter half of 19th century
Naitō Toyomasa - Wasp on Hive - wood - Japan - Edo period, 1800-1850
Sleeping Man with Monkey Steals Contents of Basket - ivory - Japan - 19th century
Rat atop a Bale of Rice - Japan - mid-19th century
Yamaguchi Okatomo - Hen and Chicks - ivory - Japan - mid- to late 18th century
Puppies at Play - ivory - Japan - Meiji period - late 19th century
Asahi Gyokuzan - Raven Perched on a Skull - wood, ivory - Japan - mid-19th century
Daruma - wood - Japan - 19th century
Roaring Shishi - ivory - Kyoto school - Japan - early 19th century
Snarling Tiger - ivory, inlaid eyes in horn - Japan - early 19th century
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▪︎ Netsuke: Rat on a Fish.
Artists: Ohara Mitsuhiro (Onomichi, Japan; 1810-1875)
Date: ca. 1850
Medium: Ivory, Ebony
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#NationalPigDay 🐖:
Boar Sleeping on Autumn Plants
Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (Japanese, 1813–1892)
Meiji era, Osaka, mid-late 19th c. (after 1863)
netsuke: stained ivory, horn, silver
2.5 x 4.2 x 3 cm (1 x 1 5/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 11.23373
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