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Netsuke had long been within the Japanese culture as a functional tool to go with the Japanese clothing. The Netsuke fastener worked to hold closed bags or pouches so to keep from loosing the belongings of personal items, but yet each Netsuke fastener also represented the beauties and wonders of Japan's nature, culture and everyday life. Netsuke can be made out of numerous material mediums, but the most common has always, and still is made out varieties of hard woods and different formations of ivories.
The 300 years of originally functioning Japanese Netsuke, out of the many formations of the daily Japanese life's representations, most all are animals. One of the many famous and even controversial Netsukes is the octopus with his nine tentacles wrapped around a woman in some fashion. These specific Netsuke formations may range from subtle artistic works to the more exotic references that can in part represent life reproduction.
Animal representation Netsuke by far is the most popular of the past and present Netsuke. Another animal in the Netsuke collections is the toad, and at times, accompanied by a Sage. The connecting meaning of the 'Toad Sage' is the all powerful sage being accompanied by the toads to give out a magical pill, for those people desiring to live for 100 years. Another Netsuke toad representation is attributed to a supernatural all powerful being of how the toad has a way to disappear in situations that would naturally be virtually impossible to be done.
A couple of other very common animals represented are the monkey and the ape. Both the monkey and the ape are long associated throughout many niches of the Japanese cultural past and present, just as several other animals that also later on became a part of the Zodiac birth calendar cycle. The monkey for example, is one of the animal's representatives on the twelve-year zodiac cycle during the 20th century, and quickly made its way into contemporary Netsuke collections. The monkey has several values and the people born within the year of the monkey are said to be intelligent, agreeable, imaginative, perceptive, and versatile. But on the flip side, the monkey also represents extravagance, vehemence, and eccentric behavioral ways and can be easily excitable.
As mentioned earlier, some of the most popular contemporary Netsuke is based on the Japanese Zodiac Calendar. This is all due to the Japanese folklore of belief in a person's birth year associated with each specific animal was a determining factor in their traits of personality, but also helped in deciding marriage suitability. Besides the monkey mentioned earlier, contemporary Netsuke of the zodiac animals, includes the snake, sheep, horse, rabbit, dragon, rooster, boar, dog, ox, tiger and the rat.
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Chinese 12 Zodiac Animal:
The Chinese Zodiac is the 12-year cycle formed by these 12 animals. They are Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig. Each year of the 12-year cycle is named after one of the original 12 animals. Each animal has a different personality and different characteristics. Many Chinese believe that the year of a person's birth is the main factor in determining that person's personality, physical and mental attributes and degree of success and happiness throughout his lifetime.
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Which 12 Zodiac Animal Represent You?
12 Zodiac Animal Year of Birth
Rat 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008
Ox 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009
Tiger 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998
Rabbit 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999
Dragon 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000
Snake 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001
Horse 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002
Goat 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003
Monkey 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004
Rooster 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005
Dog 1934,1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006
Pig 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007
Personality
Chinese zodiac signs represents twelve different types of personality. The zodiac traditionally begins with the sign of the Rat. The following are the twelve zodiac signs in order and their characteristics [1].
- Rat (Yang, 1st Trine, Fixed Element Water): Forthright, disciplined, systematic, meticulous, charismatic, hardworking, industrious, charming, eloquent, sociable, shrewd. Can be manipulative, vindictive, mendacious, venal, selfish, obstinate, critical, over-ambitious, ruthless, intolerant, scheming.
- Ox (Water buffalo in Vietnam) (Yin, 2nd Trine, Fixed Element Water): Dependable, calm, methodical,born leader, patient, hardworking, ambitious, conventional, steady, modest, logical, resolute, tenacious. Can be stubborn, narrow-minded, materialistic, rigid, demanding.
- Tiger (Yang, 3rd Trine, Fixed Element Wood): Unpredictable, rebellious, colorful, powerful, passionate, daring, impulsive, vigorous, stimulating, sincere, affectionate, humanitarian, generous. Can be restless, reckless, impatient, quick-tempered, obstinate, selfish.
- Rabbit (Cat in Vietnam) (Yin, 4th Trine, Fixed Element Wood): Gracious,perfect friend, kind, sensitive, soft-spoken, amiable, elegant, reserved, cautious, artistic, thorough, tender, self-assured, astute, compassionate, flexible. Can be moody, detached, superficial, self-indulgent, opportunistic .
- Dragon (Snail in Kazakhstan) (Yang, 1st Trine, Fixed Element Wood): Magnanimous, stately, vigorous, strong, self-assured, proud, noble, direct, dignified, zealous, fiery, passionate, decisive, pioneering, ambitious, generous, loyal. Can be arrogant, imperious, tyrannical, demanding, eccentric, grandiloquent and extremely bombastic, prejudiced, dogmatic, over-bearing, violent, impetuous, brash.
- Snake (Yin, 2nd Trine, Fixed Element Fire): Deep thinker, wise, mystic, graceful, soft-spoken, sensual, creative, prudent, shrewd, ambitious, elegant, cautious, responsible, calm, strong, constant, purposeful. Can be loner, bad communicator, possessive, hedonistic, self-doubting, distrustful, mendacious.
- Horse (Yang, 3rd Trine, Fixed Element Fire): Cheerful, popular, quick-witted, changeable, earthy, perceptive, talkative, agile mentally and physically, magnetic, intelligent, astute, flexible, open-minded. Can be fickle, arrogant, anxious, rude, gullible, stubborn.
- Goat (Ram in Vietnam) (Yin, 4th Trine, Fixed Element Fire): Righteous, sincere, sympathetic, mild-mannered, shy, artistic, creative, gentle, compassionate, understanding, mothering, determined, peaceful, generous, seeks security. Can be moody, indecisive, over-passive, worrier, pessimistic, over-sensitive, complainer, wise.
- Monkey (Yang, 1st Trine, Fixed Element Metal): Inventor, motivator, improviser, quick-witted, inquisitive, flexible, innovative, problem solver, self-assured, sociable, polite, dignified, competitive, objective, factual, intellectual. Can be egotistical, vain, selfish, reckless, snobbish, deceptive, manipulative, cunning, jealous, suspicious.
- Rooster (Yin, 2nd Trine, Fixed Element Metal): Acute, neat, meticulous, organized, self-assured, decisive, conservative, critical, perfectionist, alert, zealous, practical, scientific, responsible. Can be over zealous and critical, puritanical, egotistical, abrasive, opinionated.
- Dog (Yang, 3rd Trine, Fixed Element Metal): Honest, intelligent, straightforward, loyal, sense of justice and fair play, attractive, amicable, unpretentious, sociable, open-minded, idealistic, moralistic, practical, affectionate, dogged. Can be cynical, lazy, cold, judgmental, pessimistic, worrier, stubborn, quarrelsome.
- Pig (Wild boar in Japan and Elephant in Thailand) (Yin, 4th Trine, Fixed Element Water): Honest, simple, gallant, sturdy, sociable, peace-loving, patient, loyal, hard-working, trusting, sincere, calm, understanding, thoughtful, scrupulous, passionate, intelligent. Can be naive, over-reliant, self-indulgent, gullible, fatalistic, materialistic.
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Japanese Netsuke & Alaskan Carvings Rule The Day At The Cobbs
:It was all about carvings at The Cobbs Auctioneers' October 16 sale where a collection of netsuke and Alaskan carvings stored in a bank vault for 18 years came to market. The collection had been gathered by Llewellyn Thomas Evans and his wife Rachel Evans, who died nearly 20 years ago.
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