Tanabe Chikuunsai II (1910 - 2000)12. Juzan (Mountain of Longevity) flower basket, ca. 1990
Signed: Made by Chikuunsai
Hōbichiku bamboo and lacquer; free-style hexagonal plaiting
Height: 14.0cm
Width: 31.5cm
Depth: 31.0cm
Box inscription: Juzan hanakago hōbichiku (Mountain of Longevity flower basket [made from] hōbichiku [smoked dwarf bamboo]); Sanju Tekisuikyo Chikuunsai tsukuru (made by Tekisuikyo Chikuunsai, aged 80); Seals: Denri no in (seal of Denri), Chikuunsai
Like his father before him, Tanabe Chikuunsai II started working with bamboo as a very young child. Aged five he demonstrated his skill at hexagonal plaiting during an exhibition of his father’s works and by fifteen he had held his own exhibition.
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