Description
Wood netsuke with a design of flog – Japan – 19th century (Edo period)
This was made in Japan in 19th century in the Edo period.
Size: 58 mm × 22 mm
Weight = 12 gram.
Netsuke “根付” are miniature sculptures that were invented in 17th-century Japan to serve a practical function.
Netsuke emerged as a practical solution to dressing in 17th-century Japan.
‘Men’s kimonos didn’t have sewn-up sleeves ? they were completely open, front and back,
and that meant that the sleeves couldn’t be used as a pocket, as they could in women’s kimonos,’ Goodall explains.
To carry things suchas tobacco, medicine or other necessities, men hung stylish inro and other vessels from cords looped under and behind the wide sashes that held their kimonos in place.
At the other end of those cords, men fastened small, ornamental objects as counterweights; those objects evolved into netsuke.
Please have a look at the photos for a better impression.
