netsuke

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The shelves and walls of the Fort Lee living room are crowded with antique curiosities collected by his father on his travels: African masks, fossils, oriental netsuke.

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  1. noun A small toggle, often in the form of a carved ivory or wood figure, used to secure a purse or container suspended on a cord from the sash of a kimono.

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  • The shelves and walls of the Fort Lee living room are crowded with antique curiosities collected by his father on his travels: African masks, fossils, oriental netsuke. —  Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
  • Although Americans will be oblivious to the "homage," there's also more than a little Renault to Toyota's automotive netsuke, what with its ass up in the air, sitting on skinny tires. —  Jalopnik
  • & crocks; amberina glass; transfer ware china; lamps & lighting; bronzes; Orientalia; bottles; Wave Crest; ivory netsuke & much, much more.
  • He may have spoken twenty words, he was too stupid to speak more; the others spoke a good deal, but, except that they had been told beforehand, as to each act, about as much as the reader has been told about the second, all they said was impromptu, so that each repetition, like a Japanese netsuke, would be a unique work of art. —  Diversions in Sicily
  • He was not, however; and at this moment there reposes in my drawing-room an ancient netsuke, which came as a thank-offering from Mr. Isaac Löwe on the recovery of the booty from a back room in No. 13, Birket Street, —  John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman
 

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/ˈnɛtsəkei/
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