Featured Japanese hare & seashell

Is there a story that this is related to?

 

Looks like a plum or peach to me.

 

I think that's a peach, not a shell.

 

3rd vote for peach.

 

I was seeing a cowrie. I usually only eat canned peaches.

 

@Any Jewelry It's a familiar shape for the peach associated with Guanyin, no? Maybe this is Chinese?

 

In Japan it is associated with the Moon Goddess, a similar connection.
There is also a story of a boy who was sent from the heavens in a peach, and who fought ogres with the help of some animals, but no hare.

 

Well, Terry, I at least have had lunch, and I think the bulbous thing looks like a cowrie shell. Except for the peach leaf.

 

Japanese peach:

https://www.citysuper.com.hk/en/citysuper/foodpedia/japanese-peach

 

Can you ID the maker from the mark on the side using Gotheburg?
Patd

 

I don't think he lists carvers

 

Except if the leaf were the cowrie snail, it would be completely outside its shell.

 

All the pieces look like resin to me. 'Signatures' may not mean much. Chinese carvers are very busy replicating Japanese designs & signing Japanese names to netsuke & ojime. No doubt the same sort of thing is going on with resin copied from ivory pieces.

 

The right one in the first photo is a museum shop resin replica, the rest are ivory. The enhanced patina guy is oddly light for its size, maybe tagua?

 

Good possibility. Definitely not ivory. How big is it?

 

Peach for sure.
What is that animal? It looks like a rabbit.... but.... it also looks like some kind of rat

 

In the West we do not have rats with such long ears & such short tails, so we think it is a rabbit/hare. Are we wrong?

 

So maybe it's the Moon Rabbit.