Help with Asian necklaces
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Really nice!! Looks like quality pieces?
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Netsuke necklace.
Cool find JTW.
They look like Ivory or bone.... I cnnot tell by photos.
Cool find JTW.
They look like Ivory or bone.... I cnnot tell by photos.
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The mark is for Yamaguchi.
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Matt’s correct. The mark is for Yamaguchi. It would be nice if this were for the late 18th Century netsuke carver Yamaguchi Okatomo 山口岡友 (more usually known by his primary name ‘Okatomo’) but sadly it isn’t.
I believe it’s by the largely undocumented ‘Yamaguchi’ believed to have worked during the late Meiji or early Showa eras (first part of the 1900s) when large numbers of netsuke were produced to meet European demand for Japanese ‘antiquities’.
One of the netsuke I recognise. It’s known as “Kinko Sennin riding on a carp”. In Japanese folklore, Kinko was an artist living by a river, whose speciality was painting fish. He refused to eat them or harm them and was rewarded for his virtue by being sent a giant carp with an invitation to ride on the back of it to visit the palace of the Dragon King. On the return journey he was given a scroll illustrating the Buddhist principle of protecting all living things by the Bodhisattva Kannon (the goddess of mercy) and made a ‘sennin’ (an immortal of divine status).
Here’s another of Yamaguchi’s ‘Kinko Sennin’ pieces (also signed 山口), from the early 1900s:
Not sure about the ‘two people hugging’. You haven’t given us the length of that piece but it looks small to be a necklace. I would assume it to be a prayer-counting bracelet (they often have 22 beads) and, again, Buddhist but not necessarily with the netsuke from Yamaguchi.
I believe it’s by the largely undocumented ‘Yamaguchi’ believed to have worked during the late Meiji or early Showa eras (first part of the 1900s) when large numbers of netsuke were produced to meet European demand for Japanese ‘antiquities’.
One of the netsuke I recognise. It’s known as “Kinko Sennin riding on a carp”. In Japanese folklore, Kinko was an artist living by a river, whose speciality was painting fish. He refused to eat them or harm them and was rewarded for his virtue by being sent a giant carp with an invitation to ride on the back of it to visit the palace of the Dragon King. On the return journey he was given a scroll illustrating the Buddhist principle of protecting all living things by the Bodhisattva Kannon (the goddess of mercy) and made a ‘sennin’ (an immortal of divine status).
Here’s another of Yamaguchi’s ‘Kinko Sennin’ pieces (also signed 山口), from the early 1900s:
Not sure about the ‘two people hugging’. You haven’t given us the length of that piece but it looks small to be a necklace. I would assume it to be a prayer-counting bracelet (they often have 22 beads) and, again, Buddhist but not necessarily with the netsuke from Yamaguchi.
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