Here you can see a selection of the netsuke I made over the years.
Just click on the thumbnails and close the window after viewing.
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Kirin Sitting with his head
turned upright, with double inlaid horn eyes. |
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Trilobite Half curled up. I thought this shape would be ideal for a netsuke. Made
after a real fossil example. |
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Dragon
Ryusa shaped netsuke of a dragon. |
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Tengu
Made after Toyomasa. The eyes made of amber. |
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Octopus With double inlaid
eyes. Yellow staining. |
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Boar
Resting boar with double inlaid horn eyes and antler tusks. |
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Tanuki With double inlaid
eyes of light and black horn. Made after examples of carvers like Minko
and Kokei.
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Lizard Lying on a wood log. Ukibori on the lizard. The eyes are made of stag antler with black horn pupils. About 6 cm long.
Own design in Japanese style.
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Kirin A figure with a human face. His eyes are triple inlaid with
three colors horn. |
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Dragon Very bold dragon
coiled up. Eyes Made of stag antler and black horn. |
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Baku Sitting on
the ground with his head turned up. Eyes made of brown and black horn.
This netsuke is now in The LUB Collection, Switzerland. |
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Kirin A tall Kirin with
double inlaid horn eyes. This netsuke is now in The LUB Collection,
Switzerland. |
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Tera-Tsutsuki
The Tera-Tsutsuki or Temple pecker is a legendary bird with a large
bill, which he uses to peck away the pillars of temples causing them to
collapse. When you try to catch the bird it will fly to your house and
rip it to pieces. Inlaid
with antler and horn eyes.
This netsuke is now in The LUB Collection, Switzerland. |
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Baku First baku in a
series. Inlaid with two colors
horn eyes. |
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Baku Second Baku I carved in
a series. Inlaid with antler and horn eyes. |
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Baku Third Baku I carved in
a series. Inlaid with amber and horn eyes. |
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Baku Fourth Baku I carved in
a series. Inlaid with light and black horn eyes. |
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Kirin First Kirin in a
series. The eyes are triple inlaid. Yellow amber, warthog tusk and black
horn.
This netsuke is now also in The LUB Collection, Switzerland. |
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Kirin Second Kirin in a
series. The eyes are made of horn with black
horn pupils. |
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Weird Wolf A wolf
eating a deer leg. Eyes made of stag antler with black horn pupils. |
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Dutchman A tall
standing Dutchman with a deer slung over his back. |
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Kirin Fourth Kirin in a
series. Eyes made of stag antler and brown horn. |
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Crab claw Boxwood. Faint
ukibori pimpling. |
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Dragon with Tama Boxwood. Eyes inlaid in dark and light horn. |
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Ammonite fossil Boxwood. Two
different colors. |
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Dragon fish Boxwood. Eyes made of mammoth ivory and red coral pupils |
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Running boar Boxwood. Eyes
made of antler with black horn pupils. Tusks are made of antler. |
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Kirin Fifth Kirin in a
series. Eyes made of brown and black horn. |
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Crows head Carved from a tip
of a black cow horn.
Eyes made of jet. |
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Centipede Carved from in
very large boar tusk.
Iwami style. The open end plugged with yellow horn. |
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Kirin Third Kirin in a
series. Made a similar one a few years ago.
Light colored. Took my 8 months to finish. (With interruptions.)
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Baku Fifth Baku in a series. Copied from pictures in netsuke books.
The original is unsigned but probably by Kokusai or Rensai.
Made of a very solid piece of stag antler. |
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Toad Inlaid with dark yellow horn eyes.
The pupils are painted on the inside. Carved from Mountain Mahogany, from the USA.
This wood was kindly given to me by an American carver. |
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Venus of Willendorf A
smaller copy of the famous stone age figure made as an netsuke. I saw it
in a book and it seemed a very good netsuke shape to me. Made of
coromandel wood. A kind of ebony. Unstained. |
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Gekko The animal sitting on
a tree log. Made of umimatsu, a black coral species. The most difficult
material I carved so far. Own design in the Iwami style. |
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Salmon The head of the fish made from a little horn of a goat.
The shape and texture of the horn are left intact for the most part. |
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Crab A piece of driftwood with a crab sitting on it.
Made of a piece of mammoth ivory with it's natural bark left intact. |
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Cicada A folded leaf with the insect sitting on it.
Made of the tip of a horn. |
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Praying mantis Sitting on a piece of
bamboo.
Stag antler with brown horn eyes. |
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Eagle The bird's head made of a small boar tusk. |
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Kappa Sitting on a shell with
one foot stuck. Made of stag antler. Eye pupils of black horn. |
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Skull Carved from stag antler. It is a Neanderthal skull. |