Vintage Samurai Netsuke/Okimono Japanese Hand Made Resin Figurine. Free Shipping

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This vintage hand carved samurai netsuke okimono Japanese style. This two in one resin figurine hand scrimshawed by popular artist. This is for you if you are a collector. Made from resin. Each piece hand made so design may vary slightly.
Netsuke are miniature sculptures that were invented in 17th-century Japan to serve a practical function (the two Japanese characters net -suke mean "root" and "to attach") Traditional Japanese garments robes called Kosodo and kimono had no pockets; however, men who wore them needed a place to store their personal belongings, such as pipes, tobacco, money, seals, or medicines. Their solution was to place such objects in containers (called sagemono hung by cords from the robes' sashes (obi). The containers may have been pouches or small woven baskets, but the most popular were beautifully crafted boxes, which were held shut by ojimi which were sliding beads on cords. Whatever the form of the container, the fastener that secured the cord at the top of the sash was a carved, button-like toggle called a netsuke.