The Helen & Jack Mang Collection of Netsuke

By Chokusai, Osaka, , Early 20th century. The cub is looking at its mother with its front paws off the ground, as is the mother's left front p...

By Chokusai, Osaka, , Early 20th century. The nest carved with seven empty compartments and ten containing pupae, one of which is loose. The pupae

By Ohara Mitsuhiro (b.1810), Osaka, , Mid 19th century. The head of a sea bream in a mortar. Signed on bottom in oval reserve, Mitsuhiro. Simila

By Ohara Mitsuhiro (b.1810), Osaka, , Mid 19th century. At rest with one claw holding its egg while the other appears to grasp one himotoshi on the

By Ohara Mitsuhiro (b.1810), Osaka, , Mid 19th century. Nitta no Shiro grasps the beasts tail and begins to strike with his short sword. Signed on

By Ohara Mitsuhiro (b.1810), Osaka, , Mid 19th century. A pair of Loquats together with a leaf are attached to a stem, well-carved to simulate bark

Osaka, , Mid 19th century. The first, by Ohara Mitsusada, in the form of Daikoku's pouch, the gold lacquer decorations of precious objects wit...

Student of Mitsusada, Osaka, , Late 19th century. Holding a tzuzumi drum in his left hand and a folded fan in his right and his heavily stippled ca

By Setsuju. Osaka, , Mid 19th century. Grimacing in pain and holding his sore left arm with his right. With his left arm he appears to be polishing

By Mitsushige, Osaka, Mid 19th century. , Mid 19th century Standing with his mouth fully open in a monumental yawn revealing four irregularly spaced