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Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!
Netsuke
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Lons
Old Oak
I Like it, something I've been meaning to do for a long time, have the design all sorted just need the motivation, box would be my wood choice.
What size is it?
What size is it?
Weekend worrier
Seedling
Cool,nicely expressive too. I only recently discovered netsuke at an exhibition in The Japan House, such lovely objects.
He is very cute. Is that hornbeam’s natural colour?
Woodbloke
Sequoia
We collect them; SWIMBO has just returned from Japan with these four:
...which date from the Edo period, so are each roughly 250 years old and displayed on a slice of Yakusugi Cedar, itself a thousand years old. The Oil Seller and the Three Geese in a Basket are carved in deer horn so fine to export but not so anything carved in ivory - Rob
...which date from the Edo period, so are each roughly 250 years old and displayed on a slice of Yakusugi Cedar, itself a thousand years old. The Oil Seller and the Three Geese in a Basket are carved in deer horn so fine to export but not so anything carved in ivory - Rob
AJB Temple
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Well, Rob. Special things. Hope your wife is OK after her op in Japan. No doubt you were very concerned.
My ex MIL once removed, collected them as well and had a lot (over and hundred at a guess). This was very many years before I first went to Japan, but I remember them well as it was my first encounter with this art form. Some still had the ties - for those who don't know, early ones were a kind of large clothing button. Many of hers were very delicately carved from bone or tusk. Being Japanese during a largely fairly closed period, I doubt these were elephant ivory, though it was already trafficked in China back then, so who knows, but perhaps Narwhal or Swordfish bone.
My ex MIL once removed, collected them as well and had a lot (over and hundred at a guess). This was very many years before I first went to Japan, but I remember them well as it was my first encounter with this art form. Some still had the ties - for those who don't know, early ones were a kind of large clothing button. Many of hers were very delicately carved from bone or tusk. Being Japanese during a largely fairly closed period, I doubt these were elephant ivory, though it was already trafficked in China back then, so who knows, but perhaps Narwhal or Swordfish bone.
Phil
Old Oak
Very nice! :eusa-clap:
When I saw the title I associated it with Sake-booze.
When I saw the title I associated it with Sake-booze.
Blackswanwood
Old Oak
I like that!
Woodbloke
Sequoia
AJB Temple":yc2qzs2l said:
Thanks Adrian, she's fine now after having had her op in the Takeda hospital near Kyoto station. For various reasons, it was the right call to have it done in Japan when she did. Back here in the UK, I felt pretty powerless as there was nothing I could really do to help except to hang on the end of a 'fone. RogS was an immense help though and his contact much appreciated - Rob