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 netsuke, inro, and other items from the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco online. Click here to search the Asian Art Museum Online Collection. Enter netsuke or any other term in the search box.
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. The Norman L. Sandfield Library of Netsuke and Oriental Art is housed at the Toledo Museum. Internetsuke is a fantastic netsuke resource created by Norman L. Sandfield.
Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum is Japan's only museum dedicated to netsuke. The museum is home to some 1,800 works from the collection of Kinoshita Muneaki (also the curator) and is displayed at the only existing samurai residence in Kyoto.
Heavenly Angel by Yabe Ryosei
Photograph from Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum
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.
