Netsuke Masks U.S.& Japan emotional abuse

emotional abuse

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

A separate City map leads the way to the locations in the heart of Berlin where author Benjamin Wolbergs took his fascinating photographs

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Netsuke Masks U.S.& Japan emotional abuseNetsuke 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.