Small carvings from 10 to 40 cm high, works of Japanese arts and crafts; figurines that were placed on shelves in traditional Japanese dwellings. In the broad and traditional European sense, an okimono is a figurine.
Often, in terms of plot and expressive means, okimono approach netsuke (miniature sculptures used as pendant keychains on a kimono), but they are larger in size and do not have a hole for a cord