netsukes

netsukes

1. plural of netsuke
   • 1898, Frank Leslie, Frank Leslie's popular monthly: Volume 45:

     Some apology, I feel, is due from one who has never been in Japan for venturing to write about netsukes.

   • 1921, The bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Volume 16, Metropolitan Museum of Art:

     […] they have gone into the galleries to see the Japanese paintings, lacquered boxes, netsukes, etc.

   • 1949, Lillian Smith Albert, Kathryn Schwerke, The Complete Button Book:

     Netsukes were used by the Japanese as bobs or toggles in connection with a cord for suspending a tobacco pouch […]

   • 2010, Bernhard Wunderlich, A Science Career Against All Odds:

     All the netsukes were there, imprisoned for so long. I had packed them in the empty box of my last new razor […]