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netsuke
[ net-skee, -skey; Japanese ne-tsoo-ke ]
noun
- (in Japanese art) a small figure of ivory, wood, metal, or ceramic, originally used as a buttonlike fixture on a man's sash, from which small personal belongings were hung.
netsuke
/ ˈnɛtsʊkɪ /
noun
- (in Japan) a carved toggle, esp of wood or ivory, originally used to tether a medicine box, purse, etc, worn dangling from the waist
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Look at this little netsuke, or inro, or sword-guard, and follow the workman as you admire each detail of the execution.
Japanese Netsuke (tiny carvings of exquisite skill representing comical men, women, and children) are famous the world over.
The netsuke has, of course, no place in this form of the tabako-ire.
Japanese Netsuke and Scandinavian bone carvings are other stimulating, if more remote, fields.
In order to suspend this from the girdle there was employed a kind of button or toggle—the netsuke.
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