"The Hare With Amber Eyes"
Netsuke are the main subject of the book "The Hare with Amber Eyes" by Edmund de Waal. The book traces the history of a collection of 264 Netsuke - some of them by well-known craftsmen - which were brought to France in the late 19th Century, bought by a member of the wealthy Jewish Ephrussi family. 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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