Schedule
 

 

Friday - January 26, 2007
 8:00 am - 8:00 pm Dealers’ setup
 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Wine & Cheese Party
Mozart Room
A chance to say hello and see old and new friends.
Saturday - January 27, 2007
  8:00 am - 10:30 am Breakfast  (Free)
Outside main ballroom
 9:00 am - 10:00 am Convocation from the Japanese Consul General, Mr. Hiroshi Yamaguchi.
Opening Remarks and Instructions.
  10:00 am - 11:00 am Lecture: Joe Earle- “Strange Visitors”
Odd beings in netsuke
London and Boston, Curator of Asian and Oceanic Studies at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and former Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum
  11:00 am - 12:00 am Lecture: Neil Davey- “A Netsuke Enigma”
Questions on dating of early signed netsuke of artists mentioned in the Soken Kisho..
London, Director Japanese Antiques, Sotheby’s
 12 noon - 12:45 pm Workshops:
  • Netsuke for the Beginning Collector”-Robert Levenson
  • “Yoshitomo”- Michael Strone
  • “Digital Photography”-Gilles Lorin
  • “The Tonkotsu”-Arno Zeisnitz
 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch  (Free)
Outside main ballroom
 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm Dealers Showroom open
Auction viewing
 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm Opening Party, “Caribbean Nites”
(Outside Ritz Main Bar)
Great food, great drinks, and the best Caribbean Steel band in the entire Caribbean. See old friends and meet new ones.
Sunday - January 28, 2007
  7:30 am - 9:00 am Breakfast  (Free)
Outside main ballroom
 8:45 am - 10:00 am Buses to Morikami Museum leaving promptly at 8:45.
Trip by bus to Morikami Japanese Museum & Gardens
  10:00 am - 10:45 am Lecture: Daphne Rosenzweig, “The Dragon in Oriental Art and especially Japanese Art”
 Professor in Oriental Studies at Ringling School of Art and Design, Expert and Appraiser Oriental Antiques
 11:00 am - 11:45 amLecture: Alistair Seton, “Collecting Japanese Antiques”
Japan, Editor “Daruma” Magazine and author “Collecting Japanese Antiques”
 12:00 am - 1:30 am Enjoy the Morikami Museum, and Japanese Gardens, and the exhibit, “The Peacock's Feather: Gentlemen’s Jewelry of Old Japan”
  1:30 pm - 3:00 pm By bus back to the INS Convention.
(We will stop for a free box lunch at a tented pavilion near the Museum.)
 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Dealers Showroom open
Auction viewing
 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Auction of Fine Netsuke to benefit the INS
 8:30 pm Evening free to enjoy Coconut Grove and Miami.
Monday - January 29, 2007
  8:00 am - 10:30 am Breakfast (Free) (Outside main ballroom)
 9:00 am - 9:15 am Daily comments and instructions
  9:15 am - 10:00 am Lecture: Rosemary Bandini, “Ghosts and Goblins of Old Japan”
 London: Author numerous catalogs and on Japanese Netsuke and Inro, Expert and Dealer in Japanese Antiques
 10:00 am - 10:45 am Robert Fleischel, “Narwhal, History and Use in Netsuke”
 Tokyo, Author numerous catalogs on Japanese Netsuke and Inro, Expert and Dealer in Japanese Antiques
 10:45 am - 11:00 amCoffee Break
  11:15 am - NoonLecture Paul Moss - “Tall Figures of the Tokyo School”
 London, Author numerous catalogs on Japanese Netsuke and Inro, Expert and Dealer in Japanese Antiques
 12 noon - 12:45 pmWorkshops
  • “The Iwami School” -Yukari Yoshida
  • “Now and Then” -Jeffrey Klotz
  • “The Manju” -Burt Drexler
  • “Plastic Netsuke" -Norman Sandfield
   1:00pm - 2:30 pm Lunch
 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm Dealers Showroom open
 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Reception Midori Galleries- Sachi Wagner-Taiko Drums and lots of food and drinks!
 9:00 pm Evening free
Tuesday - January 30, 2007
  8:00 am - 10:30 amBreakfast  (Free)
Outside main ballroom
 9:00 am - 9:15 amDaily comments and instructions.
 9:15 am - 10:00 amLecture: Guenther Heckmann “Black Beauty…The Art of Japanese Lacquer Technique of Black on Black lacquer”
The Art of Japanese Special Lacquer Technique of Black Lacquer on Black Lacquer, better known as Kuromakie or Yamimakie, Variations in materials and techniques
 Germany, Renowned Japanese Lacquer Specialist and Author “Japanese Lacquer Technology”
  10:00 am - 10:45 amGabor Wilhelm-“Off Broadway Netsuke"
The beginnings of a collection
Paris, Renowned Collector and Expert, and Author numerous catalogs and articles on Japanese Art
 11:15 am - 12 noonLecture: William Scott Wilson Lecture - “The Way of Bushido”
 Miami
 12 noon - 12:45 pmWorkshops:
  • “Yatate” -Alistair Seton
  • “The Tonkotsu” -Arno Zeisnitz
  • “Digital Photography” -Gilles Lorin
  • “Lessons from an Oni” -Phyllis Lieberman
 1:00pm - 2:30pmLunch
  1:00 pm - 6:00 pmDealers Showroom open
 

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Contemporary Carvers and AuthorsReception
 

9:00 pm

Evening Free
Wednesday - January 31, 2007
  8:00 am - 10:30 amBreakfast (Free)
Outside main ballroom
 9:00 am - 9:15 amDaily comments and instructions.
 9:15 am - 10:00 amLecture: Douglas Wright with Sem Djelal-“Experiences in the Golden Age of Netsuke”
 London, Renowned Expert and Dealer in Japanese Antiques
 10:00 am - 10:45 amWorkshops:
  • “Stag-antler Revisited” -Jay Hopkins
  • “Yoshitomo” -Michael Strone
  • “Plastic Netsuke” -Norman Sandfield
  • “The Manju” -Burt Drexler
  10:45 am - 2:00 pmGeneral Meeting of The International Netsuke Society
 12:00 noon - 2:00 pmBuffet Lunch (Free)
  2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Dealers Showroom open
  7:30 pm - 12:00 midnight  Final Banquet.”Havana Nites”
(Main Ballroom)
Salsa and dance the evening away with the best Salsa Band in Miami. Great food and lots of beautiful young women and men to teach you to Salsa
Thursday – Feb 1, 2007
   … Goodbyes
Dealer exhibit breakdown

 

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