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Netsuke

Objects · Rituals

A named carved toggle of Japanese inrō-cord dress. Not a generic charm, not Daruma, and not every later souvenir bead.

  • Netsuke is historically related to Lacquer.

    Chamberlain seats netsuke among small carved toggles of ivory, wood, and lacquer used to fasten the inrō or pouch to the girdle — toggle craft, not a free-standing figurine dump.

    from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)

    historically related to · sourced · documented

sources

  • Things Japanese · Basil Hall Chamberlain

    Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese (5th ed. 1905).