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netsuke

netsuke


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Netsuke  \Net"su*ke\,  n.  [Jap.] 
  In  Japanese  costume  and  decorative  art,  a  small  object  carved 
  in  wood,  ivory,  bone,  or  horn,  or  wrought  in  metal,  and 
  pierced  with  holes  for  cords  by  which  it  is  connected,  for 
  convenience,  with  the  inro,  the  smoking  pouch  (tabako-ire), 
  and  similar  objects  carried  in  the  girdle.  It  is  now  much 
  used  on  purses  sold  in  Europe  and  America.