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.

Netsuke are very small. Smaller than a matchbox, often as small as the joint of my little-finger, these Japanese ivory, bone and wooden carvings are hard explosions of exactitude. You roll them in ...

Inada Ichiro (Japanese, 1891-1979) was an important 20th century netsuke artist. For centuries, the Japanese have used miniature sculptures hung by cords from the sash of their traditional garments ...

The British ceramicist Edmund de Waal will promote his memoir, “The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), during a two-week tour of the United States ...

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 ...

Japanese netsuke are elaborately detailed figurines. Measuring around 3–5 centimeters in length, they have been described as “small universes in the palm of the hand” for their intricacy. Netsuke ...

Hartnell College artist-in-residence Pam Murakami was heavily influenced by the Japanese craft of Netsuke, miniature carvings that are elaborately crafted and used as containers to the sash of a ...

27% of the hammer price of amounts in excess of $50,000 up to and including $1,000,000; 21% of the hammer price of amounts in excess of $1,000,000 up to and including $6,000,000; and 14.5% of the ...

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 ...