Tanabe Chikuunsai I (1877 - 1937)1. Drum-shaped flower basket made from old arrow shafts
Signed: Chikuunsai made this
Split bamboo arrow shafts, rattan, gold leaf and red and black lacquer; mat plaiting, knotting
Height: 55.0cm
Width: 18.5cm
Depth: 17.5cm
Box inscription: Koyadake tsuzumigata hanakago (drum-shaped flower basket made from old arrow shafts); Sakaifu Nansō Chikuunsai kore o tsukuru (made by Chikuunsai of the Nansō Studio in Sakai); Seals: Denjō no in (seal of Denjō), Chikuunsai
This celebrated bamboo master was the third son of the physician to a lord of the Amagasaki domain, near Osaka. His interest in bamboo started at an early age and by twelve, he was apprenticed to the bamboo master Wada Waichisai I (1851 - 1901).
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