Please identify that you are attending the
International Netsuke Society Convention
“netsuke”

Thirteen international netsuke dealers will be exhibiting for sale at the Park Inn from 2-6 pm from Wednesday-Saturday.

Lecturers and Workshop Leaders

• Annegret Bergmann
  World of Japanese theater as represented in netsuke (German)
• Alain Ducros
  Kyoto  or  Kyushu  (French)
• Dieuwke Eijer
  The Japanese Gulliver:  Wasobyoe (English)
• Matthi Forrer
  Smoking implements found in prints (English)
• Neil Holton
  Tonkotsu & Smoking (English)
• Julia Hutt
  Shibata Zeshin (English)
• Pierre Jacquesson
  Mask Netsuke (French)
• Robert Fleischel
  Bokuto
• Trudel Klefisch
  Der Sammler Albert Brockhaus (German/ English)
• Paul Moss
  Kokusai, the Genius (English)
• Tatiana Yahiro
  Daily life scenes in netsuke influenced by paintings, prints and Ehon (English)
• Yukari Yoshida
  F. M. Jonas, his life and his book (English)
• Alain Ducros
  Wood used in netsuke carving (workshop) (French/English)
• Matthhias Streckfuss
  Materials used in netsuke - elephant, mammoth, walrus ivory (workshop) (German/English)
• Robert Willemsen
  Manju (workshop) (English)

Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst

Trudel Klefisch, Convention Chair, has arranged that the lectures will be held in the museum each morning. The Museum which opened in 1977 is one of the most important architectural monuments of classical Modernism in Cologne. It was designed by Kunio Maekawa (1905-1986), a pupil of Le Corbusier. The centerpiece of the complex is the landscape garden designed by the Japanese sculptor Masayuki Nagare (b.1923) in the tradition of Japanese meditation gardens. This symbiosis of Japanese architecture and gardens combined with the presentation of the exceptional East Asian art collection make the museum a wonderful setting for our 2017 symposium.