Tanabe Chikuunsai II (1910 - 2000)6. Unryū (Cloud Dragon) handled basket for flowers, ca. 1925 - 1937
Signed: Shōchikuunsai made this
Susudake (smoked bamboo) and rattan; free-style plaiting, wrapping, bamboo-root handle
Height: 45.0cm
Width: 26.0cm
Depth: 25.5cm
Box inscription: Tennen chikute hanakago mei Unryū (flower basket named Cloud Dragon with natural bamboo handle); Shōchikuunsai kore o tsukuru (Shōchikuunsai made this); Seal: Shōchikuun
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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