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

* Netsuke thumbnail gallery with detailed images at the Bolton Museum web site

Netsuke ( Japanese: 根付 ) are miniature sculptures that were invented in 17th-century Japan to serve a practical function ( the two Japanese characters ne + tsuke mean " root " and " to attach ").

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 depicting Christ, 17th century, Japan.

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

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.

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Netsuke made from mammoth ivory ( huge quantities still exist in the Near East and Siberia ) fill part of the tourist trade demand today.

The Rani pretended to be afflicted with severe pain in the stomach, and the physician prescribed the milk of a tigress as the only cure.

A Bengal tigress with her cubs at the Bandhavgarh National Park, India

Included in his home range were the much smaller home ranges of two females, a tigress with cubs and a sub-adult tigress.

In July 1976, Billy Arjan Singh acquired a hand-reared tigress from Twycross Zoo in the United Kingdom, and reintroduced her to the wild in Dudhwa National Park with the permission of India's then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

* The Amazing Spider-Man # 343 ( January 1991 )-Willie Lumpkin greets Aunt May with the quote at the door to the Parker home, calling her " tigress.

* In DC Comics ' Supergirl # 7, Linda Danvers learns that the date her parents set her up with ( similarly to Peter's first date with Mary Jane, set up by Aunt May ) is her abusive, Satanic ex-boyfriend Buzz, who says " Face it, tigress, you just hit the jackpot.

Although ligers are more commonly found than tiglons today, in At Home In The Zoo ( 1961 ), Gerald Iles wrote " For the record I must say that I have never seen a liger, a hybrid obtained by crossing a lion with a tigress.

Tara, a hand-reared supposedly Bengal tigress acquired from Twycross Zoo in July 1976 was trained by Billy Arjan Singh and reintroduced to the wild in Dudhwa National Park, India with the permission of India ’ s then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in an attempt to prove the experts wrong that zoo bred hand reared Tigers can ever be released in the wild with success.

A Siberian tigress with a cub at Buffalo Zoo

Siberian tigress with cub in captivity

On his walk with his closest disciple, he comes to the edge of a cliff, at the bottom of which is a starving tigress about to eat her newborn cubs in desperation.

He leaps off the cliff to his death, attracting the tigress ' attention with his impact, and she eats his body.

* 1930: An experience with a tigress.

She is all campy, impossible woman, a lovable phony with the hint of tigress about her, so ridiculously artificial that she just has to be for real ".

On October 26 2011, a tigress who had been captured with an injured leg in early October delivered three male cubs in a temporary cage, while waiting for release after her recovery.

Samara, a normal orange tigress, had been mated with nearly-stripeless white male tiger, Mohan.

He mates and has a litter with a tigress, and raises a litter until one day he finds that hunters have captured and killed his entire family.

The Jahangirnama, written during his lifetime, which is a biographical account of Jahangir, has several paintings, including some unusual subjects such as the sexual union of a saint with a tigress, and fights between spiders.

Some villagers claimed to have seen a tigress with two cubs wandering near a village adjacent to Lawu Mountain.

In November 2011, two tigers were found dead in Maharashtra: a male tiger was trapped and killed in a wire snare ; a tigress died of electrocution after chewing at an electric cable supplying power to a water pump ; another tigress was found dead in Kanha Tiger Reserve landscape — poisoning is suspected to be the cause of her death.

The Thak man-eating tigress, when skinned by Corbett, revealed two old gunshot wounds ; one in her shoulder had become septic, and as Corbett suggested, could have been the reason for the tigress's having turned man-eater.

Days later, Manikantan entered the palace precincts riding a fierce tigress and followed by a pack of its cubs.

Fischbacher, appearing on the Larry King interview program, said Horn fell during the act and Montecore was attempting to drag him to safety, as a mother tigress would pull one of her cubs by the neck.

While his disciple is gone, the bodhisattva reflects that while his disciple very well may not find food, his body is just so much flesh (" a sack of shit ," literally, as the tradition states ), and by giving it up, he can save the tigress ' purity and her cubs ' lives.

Eventually, humans come across them, and the tigress arrives to protect the cubs.

In the " Hungry Tigress " Jataka, Prince Sattva looked down from a cliff and saw a starving tigress that was going to eat her newborn cubs, and compassionately sacrificed his body in order to feed the tigers and spare their lives.

At Dreamworld, Australia, it was demonstrated that the mating of a nearly stripeless white tiger to an orange tigress that carried both white and wide band genes would result in golden tiger offspring alongside nearly stripeless white and normal orange cubs.

Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.

The two tall brothers waited silently while their mother handed Gran her cold snack and water jug, placed the chamber pot beside her feet, and returned to her place at the front of the wagon with Alice.

Greg himself took two flights, with Todman leading the second, to patrol and look for targets of opportunities around Ormoc on the east coast of Leyte.

It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;

Foster Lukuklu Frayne made a sign over his heart with his two linked thumbs: I recognized it as an ancient Manu gesture intended to propitiate the Devil.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

Shaffner looked at him, altogether without guile, and shrugged his shoulders, making a little spreading gesture with his two hands.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

The crowd consequently breaks up into temporary groups ranging in size from two to six, with a half-life for the cluster ranging from three to twenty minutes.

and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.

Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.

If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;

`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

`` A portable companion always ready to go where you go -- a small friend weighing less than a freshborn infant -- to be shared with few or many -- just two of you in sweet meditation ''.

The result was the `` Gross Report '', prepared by Gross, as chairman, with the assistance of two U.N. Under Secretaries, Constantin Stavropoulos and Philippe De Seynes.

Peter Marshall noted that Bang-Jensen had later referred to his two interviews with the Gross group as `` unfortunate experiences '', and after his second meeting on the sixteenth the Dane refused to attend further hearings without legal counsel.

On Sundays, with the permission of Captain Heard, who usually attended with two of his officers, services were held in the double cabin.