Gallery

Here you can see a selection of the netsuke I made over the years.
Also a few okimono, ojime, tonkotsu and kiseruzutsu.
Just click on the thumbnails and close the window after viewing.

Wood netsuke

	*Kirin* Sitting with his head turned upright. Boxwood with double inlaid horn eyes.
	*Trilobite* Half curled up. I thought this shape would be ideal for a netsuke. Made from boxwood after a fossil.
	Dragon Ryusa shaped netsuke of a dragon. Boxwood.
	*Snail* Crawling on driftwood. Made of African Blackwood. It is a solid piece of wood. The snail is not applied. This wood has black heartwood and yellow sapwood. I used these different colors to create this netsuke.
	*Tera-Tsutsuki* The Tera-Tsutsuki or Temple pecker is a legendary bird with a large bill, which he uses to peck away the pillars of temples causing them to collapse. When you try to catch the bird it will fly to your house and rip it to pieces. Boxwood with horn eyes.
	*Toad* Inlaid with yellow horn eyes. The pupils are painted on the inside. Boxwood.
	Tengu Made after Toyomasa. Boxwood with eyes made of amber.
	*Foreigner* Tall boxwood standing south sea islander with a drum.
	Octopus With double inlaid eyes. Yellow stained boxwood.
	*Boar* Resting boar with inlaid eyes and tusks. Boxwood.
	*Tanuki* Made of boxwood with double inlaid eyes of light and black horn. Made after examples of carvers like Minko and Kokei. About 4 cm high.
	*Lizard* Lying on a wood log. Made of boxwood. Ukibori on the lizard. The eyes are made of stag antler with black horn pupils. About 6 cm long. Own design in Japanese style.
	Kirin A figure with a human face. Boxwood with eyes triple inlaid with three colors horn.
	*Dragon* Compact coiled dragon of boxwood. Eyes of yellow horn with dark horn pupils.
	*Venus of Willendorf* A smaller copy of the famous stone age figure made as an netsuke. I saw it in a book and it seemed a very good netsuke shape to me. Boxwood.

Netsuke from other materials

	Gekko The animal sitting on a tree log. Made of umimatsu, a black coral species. The most difficult material I carved so far. Own design but in the Iwami style.
	Salmon The head of the fish made from a little horn of a goat. The shape and texture of the horn are left intact fot the most part.
	Crab A piece of driftwood with a crab sitting on it. Made of a piece of mammoth ivory with it's naturel bark left intact.
	Cicada A folded leaf with the insect sitting on it. Made of the tip of a horn.
	*Baku* Copied from pictures in netsuke books. The original is unsigned but probably by Kokusai or Rensai. Made of a very solid piece of stag antler.
	Praying mantis Sitting on a piece of bamboe. Stag antler with brown horn eyes.
	Eagle The bird's head made of a small boar tusk.
	Kirin Carved from a very nice piece of mammoth ivory. Light colored.
	*Baku* Sitting on the ground with his head turned up.
	*Dragon* Twisted around a sword.
	*Kappa* Sitting on a shell with one foot stuck. Made of stag antler. Eye pupils of black horn.
	*Seadragon* Carved from a small antler. The antlershape left intact. Pupils made of black horn. It is a sashi netsuke.
	*Skull* Carved from stag antler. It is a Neanderthal skull.

Ojime

	Pinecone Carved from stag antler.
	Snake Carved from elk antler. Made to match an old tonkotsu.

Okimono

	Carp A small Carp okimono. Made of a solid piece of black horn. Very tough and fibrous material. Eyes made of mammoth ivory and black horn pupils.
	Humpback whale Okimono made of a solid sperm whale tooth. The tooth was curved and had a circular circumference. There was very little hollow space. I had this tooth for a long time and was very reluctant to cut it. It'a beautifull thing on it's own. But I though this whale was a perfect subject for it.
	Sperm whale Okimono made of a sperm whale tooth. Similar tooth as the one described above but damaged.
	*Dragon in clouds* Okimono made of an old sperm whale tooth with a crack in it. Eyes made of two colors horn.

Tonkotsu

	Tonkotsu set A burlwood tonkotsu with a cherry wood lid. Carved on reishi fungus and inlaid snail of horn. The netsuke is a boar tooth with a snail on it of black and yellow horn. The ojime is kingwood.
	*Tonkotsu* This is an old tonkotsu I bought on the internet from Japan. It was very plain. I decided to make some inlays on it. The tree is black horn, the bristles are stag antler and the moon is mother of pearl.

Kiseruzutsu

Kiseruzutsu Made of cherrywood with a stag antler carp inlaid. The carp's eye is double inlaid horn.