Japanese Obi
The definition of Netsuke is the small ancient and now contemporary artworks of Japanese sculptures. Netsuke was originally meant to hold the small carrying bag or box closed that held within the personal belongings while wearing the traditional Japanese Kimono that was made without pockets. But it was not long before these little 1-inch in size wooden, ivory, ceramic, glass, along with other materials of netsuke fasteners became a custom to being one of the very few ruler excepted forms of social communication within a otherwise, very strict Japanese Edo culture.
It has always been in the best Netsuke pieces, there would be evaluations of design and quality. The requirements that all handcrafted Japanese Netsuke would be based upon were in the areas of the quality of the materials, passing the highest grade of skills, and the specified Netsuke subjects of the carvings themselves. The first Netsuke pieces were to be based upon smoothly rounded and small netsuke, due to the original wearing of netsuke being worn between the hip and obi area of the Kimono.
Just as the past, today's contemporary Netsuke are of the various subjects of mythological means, heroic scenarios, the Asian Zodiac's twelve animals, the humorous situations of live and the regular everyday living experiences known specifically of the average person. Netsuke of the past was rarely signed, but most all netsuke did come from the highest of artistic talents of handcraftsmanship nevertheless.
Netsuke may no longer be worn as a necessity in today's clothing articles, but netsuke has been long kept alive for over 300 years now by those contemporary netsuke artists that have kept the traditional netsuke carvings alive and well. Netsuke carvers of yesterday and today are no different in taking their netsuke-handcrafted works extremely seriously and sticking to the netsuke traditions originally required in netsuke works.
Now Netsuke has approximately 50 to around 100 true Japanese and non-Japanese professional artists throughout the world. These few elite netsuke carvers are in Japan, the United States, France, Africa, Australia, England, and beyond, but they all have the true love of netsuke and follow the highest standards in contemporary netsuke making.
Today's contemporary Netsuke pieces from a real netsuke carving professional often sell for the dollar amount of four digits in price. The original Japanese netsuke pieces of the past are still fortunately able to be collected, and many pieces are in the Western hemisphere of collections, in which the price ranges go from approximately $100.00 to $100,000 per a netsuke item.
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