The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller
Two hundred and sixty-four Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his
great-uncle Iggie�� Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the netsuke, they unlocked a far more dramatic story than he could ever have imagined.
From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de si癡cle Paris, from occupied Vienna to postwar Tokyo, de Waal traces the netsuke�� journey through generations of his remarkable family against the
backdrop of a tumultuous century. With sumptuous photographs of the netsuke collection and full-color images from de Waal�� family archive, the illustrated edition of The Hare with Amber
Eyes transforms a deeply intimate saga into a work of visual art.
