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  • 2. Flower basket with natural bamboo-root handle

    Tanabe Chikuunsai I (1877 - 1937)2. Flower basket with natural bamboo-root handle

    Signed: Made by Chikuunsai
    Madake bamboo, rattan and bamboo root; square plaiting, twining
    Height: 51.5cm
    Width: 29.5cm
    Depth: 29.5cm
     
    Box inscription: Chikkonte hanakago (basket with bamboo-root handle); Chikuunsai kore o tsukuru (Chikuunsai made this); Seal: Chikuunsai
     

    Tanabe Chikuunsai I (1877 - 1937)

    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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