Mimura Chikuhō (b. 1973)15. Hōun (Cloud on the Peak), 2018
Signed: Chikuhō
Madake bamboo and gilded lacquer; yatara-ami (free-style plaiting)
Height: 39.0cm
Width: 39.0cm
Depth: 31.5cm
Box inscription: Hōun (Cloud on the Peak); Chikuhō 2018; Seal: Chikuhō
Born in Tokyo, Mimura Chikuhō trained initially as a musician and studied the trombone at the conservatoire in Heidelberg. He studied at both the well-known bamboo training school and the research institute at Oita and continued with two and a half years of study under the Beppu-based bamboo master Yufu Shōhaku.
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