Description: SKU: 3030060A-1 · Color: Beige . Hand Carved & Scrimshawed · Material: Resin . Size: L 2.25 x H 1.25 x D 1.00 inches · ITEM NUMBER: 3030060A-1 . Shipping: Free First Class Shipping with Tracking on All Orders with in the 48 US states This vintage hand carved single hump camel netsuke okimono Japanese style. Amazingly lovely. This resin figurine hand embellished is one you must have for the collector of the unusual. Each pc hand made so design may vary Sculptures that were invented in 17th-century Japan to serve a practical function (the two Japanese characters net -suke mean "root" and "to attach") Traditional Japanese garments robes called Kosodo and kimono had no pockets; however, men who wore them needed a place to store their personal belongings, such as pipes, tobacco, money, seals, or medicines. Their solution was to place such objects in containers (called sagemono hung by cords from the robes' sashes (obi). The containers may have been pouches or small woven baskets, but the most popular were beautifully crafted boxes, which were held shut by ojimi which were sliding beads on cords. Whatever the form of the container, the fastener that secured the cord at the top of the sash was a carved, button-like toggle called a netsuke
Price: 29.99 USD
Location: Naperville, Illinois
End Time: 2024-02-21T16:13:17.000Z
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Primary Material: Resin
Type: Figurine
Original/Reproduction: Vintage Original
Featured Refinements: Okimono
Region of Origin: Japan
Age: Unknown
