Netsuke are those darling carved toggles that appear to hang as decorations from obi but actually have a very practical role in the traditional dress ensemble. Since traditional Japanese garments have ...

NETSUKE, intricately carved toggles designed to hang from the sash of a man’s kimono, appear to be back in fashion. Not as smart, decorative accessories, but as treasures to be enjoyed for their ...

Reclining goat by Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (late 1800s), ivory with eyes inlaid in coral and dark horn pupils, Osaka, Japan (courtesy British Museum, gift of Professor John and Mr.s Anne Hull Grundy, all ...

Among the most engaging books I’ve read in the past decade or so is the ceramicist Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010), an account of his family’s astonishing history. Until the rise of ...

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.

New York Jewish Week via JTA — Edmund de Waal believes that objects, like families, are diasporic. They start in one place and end up in another, accumulating stories. A master ceramist who exhibits ...

Miami ophthalmologist Joseph Kurstin may have taken collecting to its greatest extreme. A passionate collector of miniature Japanese sculpture called "netsuke" for more than 40 years, Kurstin has ...

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"This catalogue comprises a selection of the netsuke held in the collections of three Museums of the University of Oxford"--pref. siris_sil_871798 ...

An exhibition in Vienna puts the figurine at the center of Edmund De Waal’s 2010 memoir on show, and tells the story of a family forced from their home by prejudice. By Palko Karasz VIENNA — Last ...

At the Jewish Museum, a book becomes an art exhibition examining the lives of the renowned Ephrussi family. By Sophie Haigney This article is part of our latest Fine Arts & Exhibits special report, ...