Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/TrickNetsuke

 
A trick netsuke is a netsuke that does something special; one with moving parts or hidden surprises. This netsuke of Daikoku's hammer opens to reveal a carving of Urashima Taro. Urashima is made of ivory, but the hammer is lacquer, so the netsuke is not heavy. A person could wear it and be unaware of its contents, as Urashima was unaware of the contents.
Reason
A high-quality picture depicting a fantastic piece of art. The picture-in-picture, though it may be considered distracting, adds important context.
Articles this image appears in
Netsuke
Creator
Cshapiro, on the Wikimedia Commons.
Nominator
Jellocube27
  • support — Cool image, well-composed, the picture-in-picture does a great job in showing how this would look assembled. A beautiful picture which conveys a lot of information — as someone who has never heard of a netsuke before, much less a trick one, I was able, from this picture and its caption alone, to feel like I fully understood it almost immediately. --Fastfission 14:58, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 09:27, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]