Julia Hutt is Curator of Japanese Art in the Asian Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum.Edmund de Waal is a world-renowned ceramics artist and author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes.

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• Foreword -- 1. Netsuke: An Introduction -- 2. Origins and Early Development of Netsuke -- 3. Function and Form of Netsuke -- 4. Materials, Techniques and Manufacture of Netsuke -- 5. Netsuke Subjects and Design Sources -- 6. Aspects of Dating Netsuke and Chronological Groupings -- 7. Netsuke Craftsmen and Centres of Production -- 8. Collecting Netsuke -- Chronologies -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Select Bibliography -- Index