Netsuke Masks U.S.& Japan frightening and

frightening and

This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on an exciting tour of one type of netsuke—those carved to look like the masks used by stage actors

Stripping away standard nineteenth-century moralistic judgments or artificial redemptive twists

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Netsuke Masks U.S.& Japan frightening andNetsuke are small toggles or buckles carved from wood or ivory. The Japanese in the seventeenth century used them to fasten pouches to their kimono belt, since kimonos had no pockets. This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on an exciting tour of one type of netsukethose carved to look like the masks used by stage actors.