Tanabe Chikuunsai I (1877 - 1937)4. Kyūsei (Long Life) fruit basket, ca. 1919
Signed: Chikuunsai made this
Madake and nemagaridake bamboo, susudake (smoked bamboo) and rattan; twill plaiting, radial plaiting, knotting, bent natural bamboo handle
Height: 32.3cm
Width: 37.5cm
Depth: 37.5cm
Box inscription: Kyūsei kudamonokago (Long Life fruit basket); Sakai ura no jū Chikuunsai kore o tsukuru (made by Chikuunsai, living on Sakai Bay); Seal: 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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