Netsuke Resources Online
Other websites where you can learn more about netsuke, inro, ojime and related subjects. This list will continue to grow, so please check back often.
The International Netsuke Society (formerly known as the Netsuke Kenkyukai Society) is devoted to the study and collection of netsuke and related sagemono art forms. Membership in the society, founded in 1975, includes a subscription to its quarterly, 60-page, color, illustrated magazine, the International Netsuke Society Journal. Among the other Society activities are a biennial convention held in the United States and local chapter meetings in the United States, Japan and Europe. There are over 625 society members living in 31 different countries.
You can view items from the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco online. Click here for inro and here for netsuke. If you want to do any other searches of the Asian Art Museum Online Collection, click here.
Monkey netsuke, photograph Benutzer: Eisfelder
Netsuke from the Toledo Museum is an online exhibition of about 20 different netsuke from the 18th and 19th centuries. Media include ivory, wood, glass, metal, and ceramic.
New York's Museum of Arts and Design exhibition "Contemporary Netsuke: Masterful Miniatures" in 2007 featured works by some of the best contemporary netsuke carvers working today. You can see photographs from and information about the exhibit here.
Visit the The Scholten Japanese Art Gallery offers a variety of Japanese works of art, including exquisite netsuke and inro.
Koryuen: Netsuke has information about exhibitions, events, and publications, in English and Japanese.
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts houses one of the finest collections of Japanese Art in the world, including inro and netsuke. Search its collection here to find netsuke and inro.
Netsuke is a very informative and interesting netsuke site created by Ko Baas, a netsuke enthusiast from the Netherlands.
Netsuke Message Board is a forum for netsuke collectors.
The netsuke and inro in the permanent collection of the Seattle Art Museum are outstanding. To take a look, click here. Then enter "netsuke" or "inro" in the search box, and you'll be taken to the photographs.
World Images provides access to the California State University IMAGE project, a collection of more than 60,000 images. Enter "netsuke" or "inro" (or whatever you're looking for) in the search box on the home page, and you'll be rewarded with a selection of photographs of these objects from collections around the world.
"Fake" (reproduction) netsuke were appraised on an episode of the PBS television program Antiques Roadshow. You can see the video here.
I've organized an online netsuke gallery at the Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Museum. View netsuke.
Japanese Netsuke, Ojime and Inro Really Belong Together, by John N. Cohen, is one of a number articles written by this well-known collector. See more of his articles here, or look at photographs of some of the pieces in his collection.
The Netsuke Online Research Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and research of netsuke art through the Netuske Online Research Project.
Online netsuke gallery at the Bolton Museum and Archive Service.
Kunstpedia is a knowledge base on fine- and decorative arts, popularly stated arts and antiques, with the exception of contemporary art. John N. Cohen, of The Cohen Collection fame, is one of the authors who has contributed to the site.
If you would like to see a large collection of netuske photographs, visit Netsuke: Exquisite Art Craft from Japan. The photographs are grouped by material (e.g. wood, mammoth ivory). Some ojime are included as well.
