Vintage Hand Made Resin Dragon Figurine. Okimono Japanese Design. Free Shipping

Description

SKU: 3030165A
·       Color:
Ivory
.       Hand
Carved & Scrimshawed
·       Material:
Resin & Bone
.        Size:
L 2.00 x H 1.00 x D 1.75 inches each
·       ITEM
NUMBER: 3030165A
.        Shipping:
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This vintage hand carved
dragon okimono Japanese figurine. This two in one bone & resin figurine
hand scrimshawed by popular artist. This is for you if you are a collector.
Each pc hand made so design may vary
Netsuke
are miniature
s
culptures 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