Animals & Others / Netsuke for Sale
[#AN30] Grazing Horse
Popular and traditional style Grazing Horse Netsuke. THE HIMOTOSHI holes are formed between body and tail.
2026 is the Year of the Horse. I inscribed "Hinoe-Uma" which means the Horse year but once in 60 years "Hinoe"horse year.
68mm tall
Materials: Deer Antler Crown, Buffalo Horn
[#OT31] Powelliphanta (Giant Snail)
Materials: Deer Antler Crown, Gold Leaf, shell
[#OT412] KANE KAERU = Money Returns
Frog or Toad, Japanese call them "KAERU" that is same meaning as "Return" "Back". Traditionally Japanese liked to have them(as Netsuke or carved stone ornament) for safe return from a trip or Money that they spent comes back. This Toad is sitting on "SENMAN-RYO" gold coin. Senman-ryo is like Ten million dollars that represents lots of money. The Gold coin is carved from another piece of Antler and dyed by Sumi ink and YASHA.
*Materials: Deer Antler, Buffalo Horn
*Dimensions : 38mm x 31mm x 24mm
[#OT1] Japanese Garden Snail
Materials: Deer Antler, Buffalo Horn
Dimensions ; 45mm x 37mm x 15mm
[#AN2] White Snake
Materials: Deer Antler, shell
Dimensions: 47mm x 28mm x 12mm
*Himotoshi is naturally formed
[#AN3] TUATARA 2025 S
Materials: Deer Antler, Buffalo Horn
31mm
Can be worn as a Necklace
[#AN28] FUKURA SUZUME = Lucky Sparrow
Materials: Deer Antler, Buffalo Horn
Dimensions : 34.5mm X 30mm X 23mm
[#AN4] Kiwi with Silver Fern
Materials: Deer Antler Crown, Buffalo Horn
All hair(feather) lines done by Kebori-chisel
[#OT5] Crawling Slug
Material: Deer Antler
The foot is used the outer hard antler and the body is the rough inside of antler. So I stabilised it.
[#AN6] Tuatara
Most celebrated of New Zealand's archaic animals, the Tuatara (Spiny Back in Maori) belongs to the early order of reptiles.
Materials: Mammoth Ivory(Tusk), mother of Pearl
[#AN8] Red Eyed Komori = Bat
In Japan, Bats have been admired as animals bringing happiness and are featured in design of lucky patterns.
Bat is called "Komori" in Japanese that is exactly the same ward/pronunciation of "Umbrella=Komori". I carved this bat like an Umbrella with Japanese traditional clouds design look like wings' end.
*carved from Deer Antler with shell inlaid.
*Dimensions : 44mm W x 39mm T x 15mm D
[#OT9] Concentration / Frog meditating
Materials: Deer Antler, Merino Sheep Horn and Goat Horn (right eye), Buffalo Horn (Left eye), Black mother of Pearl (Slug)
32mm
*The frog is on meditation, but he's been interrupted by a slug on his head. He's trying to concentrate but his face tells ....
[#OT10] Cut Salmon / Steak
Material: Deer Antler Crown
Dimensions : 78mm x 39mm x 20mm
*for someone looking for an unusual Netsuke
[#AN12] Kakapo 2023
Flightless, nocturnal and heavy weight of the Parrot world at a maximum 3.6kg. One of the most endangered birds in the world only they in New Zealand. I made this from Tagua Nut(vegetable Ivory) with buffalo horn inlayed.
37mm high
[#AN13] Kakapo
Materials: Tagua Nut(Vegetable Ivory), Wild Goat Horn
46mm High
Kakapo is New Zealand Native Parrot. Nocturnal. Heaviest and flightless Parrot
[#AN14] Toad (waking up from hibernation)
Material: Deer Antler, Gold Leaf, Tortoise Shell
63mm Length
I put Gold Leaf underneath of Tortoise Shell as eyes. So the eyes shimmer.
[#OT15] Hiding Crab with a Stone
Materials: Deer Antler, Buffalo Horn
80mm long. Can be worn as a Necklace
[#OT16] Crab on Tusk
IWAMI style Netsuke. 75mm
*Boar Tusk
[#OT17] Spider on Kumara Leaf
Materials: Wild Pig Tusk, Goat Horn(inlaid Eyes). 48mm
Iwami type Netsuke
[#OT18] Hide and Seek / Kakurenbo *SOLD
Frog is on Lotus Leaf. A crab is hiding inside of the Lotus Leaf.
When you push or pull the strings, the crab moves.
Materials : Tusk(Frog, Leaf), Deer Antler(Crab), Buffalo Horn, Abalone Shell
Dimensions: 42mm X 26mm X 17mm. Crab =22mm.
[#OT19] Firefly (Lightning Bug) = Hotaru on bamboo grass leaf
Sashi type of Netsuke. Firefly sitting on a Leaf and making its bottom glowing.
*Materials: Deer Antler, Buffalo Horn, Gold Leaf, Shell
125mm
[#AN20] Ko-mori /Nursing Bat
Materials: tagua Nut, Goat horn
*Ko-mori means Bat in Japanese, but I made this piece has two meanings by adding a baby bat. "Komori" means nursing baby. So this Netsuke is "Ko-mori's KOMORI". (hope you understand what I mean)
[#AN21] Namazu / Japanese catfish
*SASHI Netsuke 99mm
Japanese believe that they tell earthquake when it happens. You can only catch them using Goad, that's why my signature in the shape of Goad.
Materials: deer antler, buffalo horn
[#AN22] Namazu #1 = Earthquake Fish
carved from Cow Bone
[#OT23] Slug Netsuke
* Materials : Deer Antler, Buffalo Horn
can be worn as Necklace too.
[#OT24] Snail on Lotus Leaf 2
materials: Wild Pig Tusk, Abalone Shell, Goat Horn
80mm in length
The inlaid Goat horn eyes for the snail are around 0.5mm(half a millimetre)
[#OT25] Secret Sign of "KAMA-WA-NU"
"KAMAWANU" means "I don't care", "Okay, you can do it". The sign was often seen at Martial Arts DOJO in Edo period as "I don't care you to watch our practice, but I DO care you challenge us". "KAMAWANU" sign got very popular after well-known Kabuki-actor wore Kimono with this sign"
[#OT26] Feather
carved from Boar Tusk
79mm
can be worn as a Necklace
[#OT27] Crocodile Netsuke *SOLD
Materials: Deer Antler, Buffalo Horn
75mm