The popularity of netsuke temporarily declined after the Taisho and Showa periods, but technical experts from various fields, working with a wide variety of materials, entered the netsuke market in the Heisei period and a contemporary netsuke movement emerged.
大正、昭和を経て一時衰退に向かうが、平成に入って様々な分野から技術者・多種多様な素材が参入、現代根付として再び動きが活発になりつつある。