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  • 8. Flower basket in the form of a gabion with bamboo-root handle, 1928

    Maeda Chikubōsai (1872 - 1950)8. Flower basket in the form of a gabion with bamboo-root handle, 1928

    Signed: Chikubōsai made this
    Susudake (smoked bamboo) and rattan; compound lozenge plaiting, wrapping
    Height: 20.5cm
    Width: 66.5cm
    Depth: 24.5cm
     
    Box inscription: Tennen chikkonte jakagogata hanakago (flower basket in the form of a gabion, with natural bamboo-root handle); Shōwa san bōshin shūjitsu Chikubōsai kore o tsukuru (Chikubōsai made this in the autumn of 1928); Seal: Chikubōsai

    A jakago (literally, ‘snake basket’) or gabion is a large basket filled with stones and used to reinforce riverbanks, particularly in and around Kyoto; jakago are seen in screens from the sixteenth century onwards, as well as in lacquer and other arts.
     

    Maeda Chikubōsai (1872 - 1950)

    From the Kansai area, Maeda Chikubōsai I was one of the most distinguished and important bamboo artists of the early twentieth century. 

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