Japanese carved figurines, called netsuke, weren’t just cool works of art — they served a practical purpose as wardrobe accessories. A well-dressed Japanese man prior to the twentieth century could ...
Netsuke are decorative button-like toggles invented during the Edo Period (1603-1867) to fasten shut inro pill boxes and tobacco pouches that men wore hanging from their kimono sashes. They were ...
If you’ve dipped your toes deep enough in Japanese culture, you’ve probably seen small carvings or sculptures that look like different things, from dragons to animals to the most diverse of people.
In the hands of Japanese netsuke carvers like Ryushi Komada, something quite mundane becomes sublime. From a simple block of wood emerges a delicate and expressive face, the sense of movement in the ...
"This catalogue comprises a selection of the netsuke held in the collections of three Museums of the University of Oxford"--pref. siris_sil_871798 ...
Which zodiac are you? Dr Ai Fukunaga, Curator of East Asian Collections at the Chester Beatty introduces a fascinating new exhibition at the much-loved Dublin museum. The twelve zodiac animals—rat, ox ...
Lovers of Edmund de Waal’s book can get close to that netsuke in a compelling show of objects that endured across a century of violence, discrimination and dispossession. By Karen Rosenberg In his ...
Edmund de Waal’s memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes, is an artist’s attempt to understand the objects he owns, creates, and inherits. De Waal (British, 1964) is a trained potter who has been working at ...
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