An Osaka ivory netsuke of a slug on an old roof tile. Late 19th centuryCrawling over a damaged roof tile, the circular front displaying the charac...

A hornbill netsuke of a spider on a leaf. Second half 19th centuryThe insect sits with eight legs spread wide apart on a banana leaf with a rolled...

An ivory netsuke of a biwa. Second half 19th centuryThe bulging fruit lying on a branch fork beside a long leaf with thick veins. The branch's tex...

A Nagoya wood netsuke of a chrysynthemum flower and insects. 19th centuryAtop the flower sits a fly rendered in bone and with large eyes of black ...

A two-part ivory netsuke of a pine cone. Late 19th centuryOpening to reveal Jô and Uba underneath pine trees in one part, its counterpart carved w...

A group of four bone and wood netsuke. 19th/20th centurya) Fruits, bone and wood, b) an oak leaf, two gingko leaves and a maple leaf, ivory, c) m...

A fine kagamibuta-netsuke. Mid-19th centuryThe bowl of ivory carved in openwork with several tools and handicrats, symbols of the four-social clas...

A bone netsuke of a mokugyo. Late 19th centuryThe upper part of a gong with a handle in shape of a dragon fish, the eye pupil of black horn, on th...

An ivory netsuke of six grotesque masks. Late 19th centuryNone of the masks show any similarity to known mask types. The himotôshi is shaped by a ...

A lacquered wood netsuke of a small gigaku mask. Late 19th centuryWith bulging eyes and full lips, the lacquer imitating traces of wear and age. S...

Ten reference books on netsukeIncluding, a) Brockhaus, Albert, Netsuke, Leipzig, 1925 (photocopy). b) Coullery, Newstead, The Baur Collection, Net...

INS-Journals and other publications79 in total, complete vol. 1984, 2002, 08, 09 and 2011 - 2017. Single volumes 1981 - 83, 1985, 1991, -92, -93, ...