Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Slykitty65, post: 422411, member: 7985&quot;]My father went to Toyko, Japan from Okinawa sometime during the occupation in 1945 and again to the same family in July 1958 from Shima, Alaska. At that time he was working on the Al-Can highway and the family made a shrine for my dad to bestow blessings on my parent&#039;s for the upcoming birth of my sister their 2nd child. Here is a photo of the shrine. Dad came home with many gifts for mother from the family, of which were two elegant kimono with the obi belts, butterfly cape, set of shrine dolls, various dishes, and 3 netsukes which look very much like yours and do have the 3 holes for stringing the sash cords to belted garment and the netsuke medicine box, tobacco or pipe to the sash of the garments. My father at that time did smoke, and he did come back with a medicine box. I believe dads were ivory, mom is turning 99 this month and could not recall for sure what they were made of, but thought ivory. One of my sisters has them now. Too bad the photo does not show them. It does show his uniform, mess kit, shrine flowers, incense, table decor and saki for celebrating a safe trip, upcoming birth and hopes for a boy. The sash around his uniform shirt mom thinks is the obi that wrapped through the garment with cording. I only wore it once, and it was too complicated for my young hands to handle stringing it together. My parents had another girl but eventually, we became a family of 6 girls and 1 boy.[ATTACH=full]147563[/ATTACH]</p><p>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in