context: He told the members that a netsuke was at one time carefully carved by the man who wore it, building something of himself into the design, and although a class of professional netsuke makers arose later, whose work might have been more technically adept, it was ordinarily cold, stiff, and without imagination. ...
source: Missing was the element of the amateur carver, which causes these netsuke to be esteemed so much higher by the collector than the commercial product carved for money.
reference_original: У резчика отсутствовал элемент аматорства, из-за которого коллекционер ценит нэцкэ гораздо выше, чем коммерческий продукт, изготовленный за деньги.
reference_flipped: У резчицы отсутствовал элемент аматорства, из-за которого коллекционер ценит нэцкэ гораздо выше, чем коммерческий продукт, изготовленный за деньги.