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What, you ask, are netsuke?

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Netsuke started out as utilitarian objects: Little toggles to attach 17th-century Japanese men’s purses* to their belts. Like a lot of mundane objects, they eventually became an outlet for artistic expression until they were essentially intricate, miniature sculptures. And since Japan has a rich mythology, much of which is, from a Western viewpoint, frankly insane, many of these teensy sculptures are very gothy indeed.
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My favorite description is
"some guy who is just entirely too happy to be carrying an octopus"
although, being a Poe fan, I lust after the skull with a raven combination.

Date: 2012-11-15 06:49 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] capri0mni
I checked out the article, and clicked on the link in that description. And I've got to say: The octopus, on the other hand, looks properly annoyed.

(the man is an older/elderly person wearing a short cropped open tunic, and nothing else. He's standing, looking skyward, to his right, and laughing out loud at something. And he's holding octopus in front of him, grasping a tentacle in each hand. The octopus has got one of its tentacles wrapped around his right forearm).
Edited (I always get left and right confused.) Date: 2012-11-15 06:51 pm (UTC)

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