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    Posted 8 years ago

    racer4four
    (619 items)

    This is the latest addition to my animals from Sasaki.

    This series was designed by Denji Takeuchi and shows his typically modern and restrained style.

    Essentially flat front and back with grooves for the baby outline and the eyes. Great minimalistic design.

    What are they? Rats? Mice? Possums?
    Something cute anyway.

    1980s

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    Comments

    1. martika martika, 8 years ago
      Lovely and cute!!!
    2. NevadaBlades, 8 years ago
      Looks like meeses to me. [;>)))
    3. Ivonne Ivonne, 8 years ago
      Another sample of what i said while commenting Noritaki
    4. NevadaBlades, 8 years ago
      Or is that meeces??? [;>)))
    5. sklo42 sklo42, 8 years ago
      Great design, just love it!
    6. SEAN68 SEAN68, 8 years ago
      lovely design!!!
    7. racer4four racer4four, 8 years ago
      Thanks Martika. I love Japanese cute....
    8. racer4four racer4four, 8 years ago
      Meeses? Meeces? Yep - either of these.
      Thanks Blade!
    9. racer4four racer4four, 8 years ago
      Yes Ivonne - simple teaches us to appreciate things. Thanks so much for the love and comment.
    10. racer4four racer4four, 8 years ago
      Peggy and Sean - as great arbiters of design and taste I am so glad you like this.
      I think Takeuchi was a master of design but it's always good to have the less one-eyed agree with me on something!
      Thanks both.
    11. Celiene Celiene, 8 years ago
      Mice! Very cute.
    12. rhineisfine rhineisfine, 2 years ago
      I'd be willing to bet anything that these are mice, probably a mother and her baby; and that this is an okimono (decoration - roughly, "figurine") specifically intended for display in the Year of the Mouse.
      The Japanese zodiacal calendar tends to refer to the "Rat" year as the Mouse year. I remember my tea sensei telling me that because there's a little ambivalence about rodents and cleanliness, it's preferable to depict the zodiacal mice as white rather than grey. (This may have been just her taste, but it seems to be a common practice.) And it's often popular to depict little ones, too - I suspect that way the "cute factor" overcomes the squeamishness!
      It might be interesting to look at your other "animals from Sasaki" as I imagine you may find that they also depict the zodiacal animals (which, of course, the Japanese took from the Chinese calendar).
    13. racer4four racer4four, 2 years ago
      Thanks for clarifying it's mice RiF. I have most of the Takeuchi animals and most are exotic, elephant, rhino, etc.
      Sasaki did seem to design to a Western market more than Japan for their animals series. However I have many other animals from other Japanese glassmakers and you are correct, they are almost always part of the zodiac.

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