Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Japanese netsuke, Ojime and INRO really belong together


Netsuke
Japanese netsuke are little carvings, usually made of ivory or wood, as treatment excellent pieces or turns out formed.So a good way of assessing a good netsuke is to treat while so it should feel very good and interesting in the hand without disturbing points sharp to tun.Obwohl netsuke, are often just over an inch tall, very powerful carved and so full character this small sculptures.

Each netsuke attached getting some linked holes or a deliberate gap often between a tail or leg for a string that you used as a toggle be. beigefügt.Dennoch were usually INRO there are many collectors that collect only netsuke without having any INRO.

INRO and Ojime
So what's an INRO? this finely decorated paint are containers, consisting of a series of interlocking subjects, usually there is between 2 to 6 compartments, kept all together on a string. A Ojime is a decorative Pearl became thread on the cord, so that once towards the bottom pressed INRO after, it all the subjects that closed can gehalten.Ojime Exquisit carved pearls metal, stones or ivory. This INRO was the kimono fashion and were then used for the implementation of small personal items such as seals and pills.

The kimono had no pockets, so the INRO by the Ojime closed held hang from the sash would be worn; the netsuke was pushed under the sash, thereby trapping and keep in force the INRO.

Japanese lacquer work on INRO is so beautiful, but it is a difficult medium with to work as a time consuming process.Not only is to build a very large number of levels before any decorative work can be introduced, but there are also several different very finest skills in completing the decoration.Techniques include colored varnish, shell inlay, metalwork and amazing applications of tiny bits of Gold.Was is also exceptional, is that after the decoration, the paint and metal shell decoration, often can pretty thick, but all INRO fit sections in each other so smooth that if the INRO is closed, one can see, are very fine lines that really the separator are gaps between the various departments.

The paint artist uses the designs were not only very nice but were often deliberately worked to both sides of the INRO in a way the maximum curiosity as to force to flip the INRO, see what's on the other hand.

What a shame these days seem, is that collectors, the only netsuke and INRO collect it, some even only gather the Ojime! no doubt this has to do a lot with the escalating costs of these treasures, but so much more satisfying find really this specific Japanese antiques, which all together include. it is the ideal netsuke and Ojime that only an INRO and Ojime have beziehen.Um well together with a preferred INRO, these are often together sold the INRO but without the netsuke and Ojime seems still incomplete.








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