Tanabe Chikuunsai IV and Sawako KaijimaDisappear VIII (Utakata), 2017
Bamboo (madake), rattan, lacquer
Height: 32.5cm
Width: 49.0cm
Depth: 27.0cm
Tanabe Chikuunsai IV is the fourth generation of an illustrious family of bamboo masters from Sakai, Osaka prefecture. Following a degree in sculpture at the Tokyo University of the Arts, he began an apprenticeship under his father, the renowned bamboo master, Tanabe Chikuunsai III (1940-2014) and he himself assumed the title of Tanabe Chikuunsai IV in 2017.
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