Netsuke

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Netsuke \Net"su*ke\, n. [Jap.]
     In Japanese costume and decorative art, a small object carved
     in wood, ivory, bone, or horn, or wrought in metal, and
     pierced with holes for cords by which it is connected, for
     convenience, with the inro, the smoking pouch (tabako-ire),
     and similar objects carried in the girdle. It is now much


     used on purses sold in Europe and America.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]