Allow me to introduce my high-gifted friends:

·         Janel Jacobson - netsuke,  www.janeljacobson.com

·         Cornel Schneider - netsuke, www.cornelschneider.ch

• Sergey Osipov - netsuke, http://www.osipovnetsuke.com
• Peter Welsh – netsuke, http://www.peterwelshcarving.com/
• Bradford Blakely - netsuke, http://woodstoneandbone.com/
• Douglas Sanders - netsuke, http://www.dougsanders.net/
• Jacques Vesery – wood art,  www.jacquesvesery.com
• Jim Kelso, http://www.arscives.com/jkelso/netsuke.htm
• Edward Fraughton – sculptor, http://www.edfraughton.com/
• Vjacheslav Chernoshey - netsuke, http://www.slava-chernoshey.com/
• Don Fogg – custom knives, http://www.dfoggknives.com/
• Ataru Maeda - netsuke, http://atarunetsuke.blogspot.com/
• Günther Heckmann – photographer, www.guenther-heckmann.de
• Hans Meevis – Jewelry studio http://www.meevis.com/
• Oleg Doroshenko – netsuke, sculptures,  http://doroshenko.in.ua/
• Galyna Mudrovska – netsuke, sculpture, http://www.mudrovska.in.ua/ 

Forums and Sites:

·         The Carving Path Forum  http://www.thecarvingpath.net/forum

• International Netsuke Society Forums  http://forums.netsuke.org/tool/mb/netsuke
• International Netsuke Society site: www.netsuke.org/  
• Russian Netsuke etc.- Forum http://forum.netsuke.org.ru/ (rus/eng)
• Russian Netsuke etc. – site http://netsuke.org.ru/ (rus)

·       The Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers

       http://royal-miniature-society.org.uk

·        SAGEMONOYA™  Netsuke, Inro, Sagemono

            Sagemonoya Gallery in Tokyo, Japan is the only specialized netsuke dealer in Japan.

           www.netsuke.com &  www.sagemonoya.jp

·         Norman Sandfield

               is a Japanese art dealer, located in Chicago, offering netsuke, sagemono and Asian art objects.

            http://www.internetsuke.com/

·         “Sever Kost”, has a lot of interesting pieces carved by Russian carvers: http://www.severkost.ru/

·        Book Store: NIHON ART PUBLISHERS, http://www.nihonart.de/

Raw materials:

1.  WATANABE-SHOTEN
SPECIALIST IN JAPANESE LACQUER MATERIALS, http://www1.odn.ne.jp/j-lacquer/home_eng.html

2.  “Sever “– pieces of mammoth tusks, horns, woods, stones and etc. http://www.northerntusks.biz/  The owner, Ludmila, works very well!