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  • 7. Smoked bamboo flower basket bound in the style of a suit of armour with bamboo-root handle

    Tanabe Chikuunsai I (1877 - 1937)7. Smoked bamboo flower basket bound in the style of a suit of armour with bamboo-root handle, 1922 - 1937

    Signed: Chikuunsai made this
    Susudake (smoked bamboo) and rattan; parallel-line construction, twining, knotting
    Height: 45.4cm
    Width: 16.0cm
    Depth: 16.0cm
     
    Box inscription: Susudake yoroi-tsuzuri hanakago (smoked bamboo flower basket bound in the style of a suit of armour); Sakaifu Nansō Chikuunsai kore o tsukuru (Chikuunsai of the Nansō Studio made this in Sakai); Seals: Denjō no in (seal of Denjō), Chikuunsai
    • 7. Smoked bamboo flower basket bound in the style of a suit of armour with bamboo-root handle
    • 7. Smoked bamboo flower basket bound in the style of a suit of armour with bamboo-root handle

    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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