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Examples of classic Japanese armour from the mid-19th century, steel sword blades ( Katana ), Inrō, lacquerware including the Mazarin Chest dated c1640 is one of the finest surviving pieces from Kyoto, porcelain including Imari, Netsuke, woodblock prints including the work of Ando Hiroshige, graphic works include printed books, as well as a few paintings, scrolls and screens, textiles and dress including kimonos are some of the objects on display.

Netsuke, like the inro and ojime, evolved over time from being strictly utilitarian into objects of great artistic merit and an expression of extraordinary craftsmanship.

Netsuke of tigress with two cubs, mid-19th century Japan, ivory with shell inlay

Netsuke production was most popular during the Edo period in Japan, around 1615-1868.

Netsuke are the main subject of the book " The Hare with Amber Eyes " by Edmund de Waal.

Later given to the family's Vienna branch, where a family servant kept them hidden during the Holocaust when the Nazis confiscated the family's other possessions, the Netsuke were in 1947 taken back to Japan by a surviving family member who came to live in Tokyo.

* International Netsuke Society This organization publishes a journal for collectors and holds international meetings bi-annually.

* Isaac Kaplan Netsuke Collection.

Netsuke depicting Christ, 17th century, Japan.

The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Ramey's fist and the air expelled from the man's collapsing cheek made a hollow pop in the air like cupped hands clapping together.

Officers who participate in the continual practice drills assured me that the President's decision could be made and announced on the gold circuit within minutes after the first flash from Aj.

`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

To their leaders the Constitution was a compact made by the people of sovereign states, who therefore retained the right to secede from it.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

I reconstruct his sentences from notes made immediately after our conversation.

Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment: the roses, whose petals might not be collected until they had fallen, to be made into perfume or rose-tea to drink ; ;

bright flowers from the trumpet vine that made `` gloves '' on the ends of ten waggling fingers.

they fled from the Victorian parlor and made their way across the stormy Atlantic.

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.

Cloud made an interesting statement in parting from his client: `` I wanted to be a lawyer, and Mrs. Wright wanted me to be an avenging angel.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

To exonerate the legislature and thereby extricate himself from a sticky situation, Pike took another course and made it appear that the legislature had been bilked.

This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

He could produce carefully constructed orations, set and formal speeches, artfully and prayerfully made by writing and rewriting with all the aid his tutor and others could provide, and then delivered verbatim from memory.

The revolution in jazz that took place around 1949, the evolution from the `` bebop '' school of Dizzy Gillespie to the `` cool '' sound of Miles Davis and Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, and the whole legend of Charlie Parker, had made an impression on many academic and literary men.

Fortunately it spared us from the usual spate of silly resolutions which in the past have made Georgia look like anything but `` the empire state of the South ''.

A three-holed flute, 18. 7 cm long, made from a mammoth tusk ( from the Geißenklösterle cave, near Ulm, in the southern German Swabian Alb and dated to 30, 000 to 37, 000 years ago ) was discovered in 2004, and two flutes made from swan bones excavated a decade earlier ( from the same cave in Germany, dated to circa 36, 000 years ago ) are among the oldest known musical instruments.

* Many huts made of mammoth bones were found in Eastern Europe and Siberia.

The people who made these huts were expert mammoth hunters.

Other commonly seen gadgets in the series include a baby woolly mammoth used as a vacuum cleaner ; an adult woolly mammoth acting as a shower by spraying water with its trunk ; elevators raised and lowered by ropes around brontosauruses ' necks ; " automatic " windows powered by monkeys on the outside ; birds acting as " car horns ," sounded by the driver pulling on their tails or squeezing their bodies ; an " electric " razor made from a clam shell, vibrating from a honey-bee inside ; a pelican as a washing machine, shown with a beakful of soapy water ; and a woodpecker whose beak is used to play a gramophone record.

The oldest known musical instruments have been found here, too: flutes made from the bones of swans and griffon vultures, some 35, 000 years old, and in 2004 a flute carved from the tusk of a mammoth dating from the Ice Age, around 37, 000 years ago, and the oldest representation of the human body, the Venus of Schelklingen.

The tip plate of the bow may be made of bone, ivory, mammoth ivory, or metal, such as silver.

Front of a netsuke depicting Budai | Hotei, made of mammoth ivory

Digby also noted that some early papers published about the New Siberian Islands incorrectly describe them, often along with other Arctic islands, i. e. Wrangel Island, as being made either up almost entirely of mammoth bones and tusks or of ice, sand, and the bones of mammoths and other extinct megafauna.

As much of the driving force at the early organizing of the MST came from Catholic base communities, much of the MST ideology and actual practice are rooted on the principle, taken from the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, that private property should serve a social function-a principle developed during the 19th century, and made into Catholic official doctrine since Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum encyclical ; on the eve of the 1964 military coup, that was the principle evoked by President João Goulart in his famous " Central rally " ( a mammoth rally held in Rio de Janeiro, near to the city's greatest railroad station, where the president made a speech offering a blueprint for various political and social reforms ) when proposing the expropriation of estates of more than 600 hectares in area situated at the vicinity of federal facilities ( roads, railroads and reservatoirs as well as sanitation works )- a move that triggered the strong conservative resistance leading to Goulart's downfall.

Handles were once made of elephant ivory, but this has been discontinued, though fossil ivory, such as mammoth, is still sometimes used, and antique razors with ivory scales are occasionally found ( it is illegal to kill elephants for their ivory, but it is legal to buy an ivory-handled razor made before 1972 ).

In 105 overs Somerset made a mammoth 580 for 5 declared.

However, fully fit in 1938 Bowes headed the first-class averages and his bowling gave England a mammoth win at The Oval after Len Hutton made 364.

He embarked upon the mammoth task of rehabilitating refugees in the area and made significant progress.

Although never filling the mammoth facility the club made a show of offering vast numbers of tickets for sale at reasonable prices, including 40, 000 reserved seats for each home contest priced at $ 2. 50, 15, 000 general admission seats costing $ 1. 50, and 8, 000 children's tickets priced at just 60 cents.

The Chicago Black Hawks, who had made the mammoth nine player deal the previous season, now decided to make the largest cash deal for players to this time by paying $ 75, 000 for Jim McFadden, George Gee, Jimmy Peters, Clare Martin, Clare Raglan and Max McNab.

Canada's openers Dipchand ( 105 ) and Prashad ( 129 ) shared an opening partnership of 233 as their country made 356 / 2 ; Fiji made 109 to lose by a mammoth 247 runs.