netsukes

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of netsuke

   “Some apology, I feel, is due from one who has never been in Japan for venturing to write about netsukes.”

   “[…] they have gone into the galleries to see the Japanese paintings, lacquered boxes, netsukes, etc.”

   “Netsukes were used by the Japanese as bobs or toggles in connection with a cord for suspending a tobacco pouch[…]”

   “All the netsukes were there, imprisoned for so long. I had packed them in the empty box of my last new razor […]”