Netsuke - Wind and Thunder Gods, Masks, and Blowfish🐡 根付 - 風神雷神、面、フグ🐡

Japanese follows English.　英語の後に日本語が続きます。

I've written many posts about netsuke. According to Britannica, netsuke is an ornamental togglelike piece, usually of carved ivory, used to attach a medicine box, pipe, or tobacco pouch to the obi (sash) of a Japanese man’s traditional dress. 

Because of such functionality, netsuke needs to be very small (i.e., about 3cm) and therefore is very miniature and delicate like the three netsuke below on show at Tokyo National Museum.   

Netsuke in the shape of Wind and Thunder Gods, 19th century
風神雷神牙彫根付 19世紀

Netsuke in the shape of masks, 19th century 面寄牙彫根付 19世紀

Netsuke in the shape of fisherman and blowfish, 18th century 河豚漁夫牙彫根付 18世紀

These are all 3 cm tall/long netsuke in the shape of, from the top:

- Wind god and thunder god

- Masks

- Fisherman and blowfish 

They are all funny and cawaii, but don't be fooled by their appearance! Wind and thunder gods are usually like in the byobu painting below and blowfish is poisonous!! 

Wind God and Thunder God, Korin Ogata, 18th century 風神雷神図屏風 尾形光琳 18世紀

Right half - Wind god 風神

Left half - Thunder god 雷神

By the way, my favorite sake in winter is hirezake (literally, fin sake), i.e., hot sake with a grilled blowfish fin. Hirezake is not only tasty with nice (not fishy but charcoal!) flavor but makes us warm. 

I go to my favorite sushi restaurant to have hirezake and sushi every year around this time in winter, but I can't because of Covid-19😭 So instead, I got a pack of blowfish fins online and have this fin sake I make myself and sushi taken away from that restaurant😊😊!  

If you want to see other netsuke, read the following posts!

- Symbol of Peace? - Netsuke & Halloween

- Japanese Saying: Netsuke Titled "A-Hum"!
- Netsuke - Japanese Lovelorn Ghost Puts a Curse Saying "Urameshiya..."
- Kawaii Two-Legged Yokai Goblin Netsuke Sculpture
- Kawaii Netsuke Jedi
- Watermelon Netsuke Carving With Makie Lacquer Painting
- Netsuke - Jurojin God
- Netsuke - Dog Days
- Netsuke - Muskmelon
- Netsuke and Jello - Goldfish
- Netsuke/Ojime - Wild Boar, Baby Boars
- Gourds in Various Forms - Netsuke, Pickle.....
- Netsuke - Sheep
- Netsuke - Boss
- Netsuke - Fukurokuju God 

- Ofuku (Netsuke) & Okonomiyaki (Japanese Savory Pancake)

- Netsuke - Daruma and Tengu

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これまでも根付について書いてきました😍 可愛さと精巧さが同居している世界がとっても好きです。今回も東京国立博物館で鑑賞した根付三つをご紹介します。上から：

- 風神雷神牙彫根付

- 面寄牙彫根付

- 河豚漁夫牙彫根付

風神雷神ってこんなに可愛かったんですね。それにこのフグちゃん、プクプクです！フグといえば、冬はいつも近所のお寿司屋さんでひれ酒をいただくのですが今年は行けない！！

というわけで、ネットで買ったひれで作ったひれ酒を、テイクアウトしたお寿司といただいております。体も心も温まります😊

根付にご興味ある方は、以下の記事もどうぞ！

- 平和の象徴？「根付とハロウィン」

- 根付って面白い！

- うらめしや～

- 妖怪二本足

- カワイイ根付ジェダイ

- スイカの蒔絵根付

- みんな寿老神！

- 根付 - 猛暑

- 根付 - メロン

- 金魚の根付と和菓子

- 根付/緒締め - 猪, うりぼう

- ひさごの根付、奈良漬け、炒め物

- 根付「ひつじ」と不可算名詞

- 根付 - ボス

- 根付 - 福禄寿

- 阿福（根付）とオタフクソース

- 根付 - だるまちゃんとてんぐちゃん

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