While Japan was drifting away from netsuke, Westerners were gravitating toward them. Particularly in the 1870s and ’80s, Western culture was enamored of Japanese applied art, says James Archer ...

Netsuke in shape of a rat on New Year rice cakes (kagami mochi) 鏡餅に鼠根付 Signed Masakatsu 銘 正勝 1850–1870, Edo period (1615–1868) or Meiji era (1868–1912) ...

Ivory gained popularity among Japanese in the 17th to mid-19th centuries, when it began to be used to make netsuke, small toggles that fasten a purse or container to a wearer’s obi belt.

History: It’s not everyday that you long to hold a pouch of baby rats. But when they are Japanese netsuke, the urge to wrap your fingers around these ivory carvings may be irresistible. Netsuke ...

The Miami ophthalmologist’s cache also includes a 3.25-inch-tall ivory horse that holds the world-record auction price for netsuke of £154,000 (about $300,000 at the […] × Robb Report ...

LONDON — In his award-winning biography, “The Hare With Amber Eyes,” British ceramic artist Edmund de Waal tells the story of his family through its collection of Japanese netsuke carvings.

Meanwhile, 79 of De Waal’s netsuke—small toggles used to hold together a Japanese man’s clothing ensemble—will go under the hammer at Matthew Barton Ltd in London on 21 November, with ...

Japanese carved figurines, called netsuke, weren't just cool works of art — they served a practical purpose as wardrobe accessories. A well-dressed ...

‘NETSUKE” ARE MORE than just cute, miniature Japanese carvings that appeal to many collectors. They were used as toggles on the obi or sash of Japanese robes, either the kosode or kimono ...

The author and ceramicist Edmund de Waal will send on long-term loan to the Jewish Museum in Vienna his collection of netsuke which were at the heart of his 2010 memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes ...