
Life Jun 17, 2012
Hunting ivory netsuke carvers is like a big game
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 Restoration of 1868. Particularly in the political capital of Edo (present-day Tokyo), these woggles ...