Ivory figure group, possibly a netsuke, in the form of a naked woman and baby boy having just taken a bath, Japanese, 18th or 19th century ...

Netsuke are the diminutive works of art that dangled from cords attaching purses or other pouches to a kimono's obi sash before Western garb ousted traditional dress after the modernizing Meiji ...

New York Jewish Week via JTA — Edmund de Waal believes that objects, like families, are diasporic. They start in one place and end up in another, accumulating stories. A master ceramist who exhibits ...

For having put up for sale nine Japanese "Netsuke" ivory figurines, without having the required CITES certifications on the origin of the objects and the ivory, an Italian citizen residing in Quartu ...

The Japanese used a netsuke (pronounced net-skeh or netski) to suspend items from their belts in the last quarter of the 19th century. They had no pockets in their kimonos. The netsuke, comparable to ...

Japanese netsuke are elaborately detailed figurines. Measuring around 3–5 centimeters in length, they have been described as “small universes in the palm of the hand” for their intricacy. Netsuke ...

The gallery at the Japan Information and Culture Center isn't one of the city's largest spaces. But scale your sights down to the pint-size objects in a new exhibition there, and the room may start to ...