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Large Striking Japanese Bamboo Sculpture Honma Hideaki
By Honma Hideaki
Located in Atlanta, GA
A tall and striking woven bamboo sculpture by Japanese bamboo artist Honma Hideaki (b. 1959) made in 1996 and originally purchased from Tai Modern, Santa Fe in 2008. The vertical scu...
Category
1990s Japanese Organic Modern Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Large Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Sculptural Basket Kawano Shoko
By Kawano Shoko
Located in Atlanta, GA
A beautiful bamboo sculpture in an Ikebana basket form by contemporary Japanese bamboo artist Kawano Shoko (born 1957-). The piece was made in 2005 and purchased from Tai Modern in 2...
Category
Early 2000s Japanese Organic Modern Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Sculptural Ikebana Kawano Shoko
By Kawano Shoko
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large woven bamboo basket form ikebana called "Richness" beautiful bamboo by contemporary Japanese bamboo artist Kawano Shoko (born 1957-) circa 2002 and purchased from Tai Modern...
Category
Early 2000s Japanese Organic Modern Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Sculpture Kawano Shoko
By Kawano Shoko
Located in Atlanta, GA
A beautiful bamboo sculpture in a double-walled basket form by contemporary Japanese bamboo artist Kawano Shoko (born 1957-). The piece entitled "Birth" was made in 2002 and purchased from Tai Modern...
Category
Early 2000s Japanese Organic Modern Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Japanese Woven Ikebana Hanging Basket by Suemura Shobun
By Suemura Shobun
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese woken bamboo Hanakago, a wall hanging Ikebana basket by Suemura Shobun (1917-2000). The basket is entitled Purple Bamboo Mt. Fuji and was woven with Susudake (smoked bamboo) using irregular plaiting technique to achieve a voluminous form that resembles the iconic Mount Fuji and with the textural appearance of a bird's nest. The base was detailed with mushi-maki knotting and the mouth rim is equipped with a small loop for hanging. The surface has a lustrous lacquer coating that shows off the natural pattern of the bamboo marking. It houses a removable lacquered container made from bamboo culm. The piece is not singed, but it comes with an original fabric stroage pouch, and an original storage box (Tomobako), which is signed with the title on the esterior Mt. Fuji Purple Bamboo” and signed Suemura Shobun on the inside with two red seals.
Suemura Shobun was from Kansai region and active in Osaka. He studies under Yamamoto Chikuryosai I. Shobun is known for making unconventional baskets that are modern and sculptural.
For reference, see page 94 Master of Bamboo" Rinne.
For a recently sold basket...
Category
20th Century Japanese Modern Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bamboo
Japanese Bamboo Basket Ikebana by Tanabe Chikuunsai II
By Tanabe Chikuunsai II 1
Located in Atlanta, GA
A woven bamboo flower Ikebana basket by Tanabe Chikuunsai II (1921-2000) from Showa era (1926-1989), circa 1950-1960s. The ikebana basket takes a vertical square form, the body was e...
Category
20th Century Japanese Japonisme Scholar's Objects
Materials
Bamboo, Wood
Early Japanese Hand Basket with Brocade Interior by Suzuki Gengensai
By Suzuki Gengensai
Located in Atlanta, GA
This small elegant woven bamboo basket was meant to be a hand-hold bag with its brocade interior (which appears original). It was made by Suzuki Gengensai (1891-1950) circa 1910-20s. Suzuki Gengensai was from Kansai region and active in Osaka. He studied bamboo art under Yamashita Kochikusai (1876-1947) and became an independent artist in 1913. He received his artist name Gengensai in 1914 and in 1923 he changed the characters to Gen, a slight written variation of the character. This basket was signed in the former way, which helps to date the piece to the early part of the artist's career circa 1914-1923.
The basket is tightly woven in variation of twill plating that creates contrasting bands on the surface. The base was constructed with short bamboo stripes on the corners and side with ornamental knots.
A closely related piece (Object Number: 2006.3.651) with slight different surface twill patterns is in the collection of Asian Art Museum San Francisco. Comparing the two, they show almost identical form as well as the base construction. Both also have brocade interior and most likely were woven during the same period.
Another documented example can be found on page 180 in "Baskets Masterpieces of Japanese Bamboo Art...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Decorative Baskets
Materials
Brocade, Bamboo
Large Japanese Woven Bamboo Morikago Basket by Maeda Chikubosai I
By Maeda Chikubosai
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large and impressive Japanese basket in the form of a morikago by Maeda Chikubosai I (1872-1950) circa first half of the 20th century. Chikubosai I was from the Kansai Region and active in Sakai, Osaka prefecture. He was instructed by Wada Waichisai I, (1851-1901).
Morikago is a shallow open basket with handle. It was traditionally used to display fruits, sometimes flowers, during Sencha tea ceremony. In contrast to Chanoyu, Sencha ceremony uses loose green tea leaves instead of tea powder. The placement of loose fruits in the basket meant that the pattern of the bottom, which is often elaborate, was meant to be visible.
This morikago was beautifully constructed with bent bamboo frame and twill plaits for the body. The bottom of the basket features a double diamond pattern achieved with a variation of plover plait. The bifurcated handles was bundle-plated with a rather free spirit approach. They show a poetic suggestion of movement, as if the bamboos were still swaying in the wind. The basket has a copper insert that fits perfectly and it is quite possibly the original. The basket is signed on the base "Chikubosai". The style of the signature shows that it was made by Maeda Chikubosai I.
For another Morikago basket by Maeda Chikubosai I, see page 79 of "Masters of Bamboo" by Rinne.
For the study of the signature of Chikubosai I "Baskets Master Pieces of Japanese Bamboo Art...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Decorative Baskets
Materials
Copper
Japanese Woven Bamboo Brazier by Maeda Chikubosai I
By Maeda Chikubosai
Located in Atlanta, GA
An important piece of bamboo basketry art by Maeda Chikubosai I (1872-1950), circa 1920s-1930s. The body of the bamboo brazier was made with smoked bamboo (susudake) and rattan and with a built-in copper liner brazier. Mat plaiting, diagonal plaiting and twining were used to construct the robust body while hexagonal plaiting was used for the base. It is signed on the base Chikubosai Kore o tsukuru (Chikubosai made this). The copper brazier...
Category
Vintage 1920s Japanese Japonisme Decorative Baskets
Materials
Copper
Japanese Bamboo Ikebana Basket by Yamamoto Chikuryosai I Shoen
Located in Atlanta, GA
An important Japanese bamboo Ikebana basket by Yamamoto Chikuryosai I (also known as Chikuryusai I, Shoen after 1929) (1868-1945). Active in Osaka, Kansai region, he was advised by Wada Waichisai I. After 1929, he signed his work as Shoen (Shoen made this), such as this one.
This basket was made using "sooted" bamboo (susutake in Japanese). This bamboo materials was collected from traditional thatched-roof houses that had been exposed to decades of smoke from a hearth or cooking fire, therefore the basket displays a deep rich patina that is hard to attain by color-lacquering. The basket featured a large rounded barrel form with handle. The body was constructed with a twill plaiting variation of a more relaxed and loose weave. It allows the light coming through to render the piece a lighter sense. Parallel plaiting was used to reinforce the body with stripes of bamboo, while adding more visual constrict to a free spirited background. Twisted bamboo strips form rope-like handle and the top rim. It is signed "Shoen Made This" on the base. Two-piece water container made from bamboo trunk is retained with the piece as shown.
For the artists other and similar work, see baskets masterpieces of Japanese Bamboo Art...
Category
Vintage 1930s Japanese Japonisme Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo
Japanese Wagumi Handled Bamboo Basket Ikebana
Located in Atlanta, GA
Bold, rustic and with an earthy free spirit, this wagumi style flower basket with twisted handle (ikebana) was designed and woven to evoke a sense of serenity and humbleness during t...
Category
Vintage 1920s Japanese Japonisme Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bamboo
Japanese Bamboo Basket Ikebana by Yamashita Kochikusai
By Yamashita Kochikusai
Located in Atlanta, GA
Yamashita Kochikusai (1876-1947) was a Japanese bamboo artist from Osaka, Kansai region. He apprenticed under Wada Waichisai I (1851-1901), becoming independent in 1901. His students include Ezono Chikubisai, Suzuki Gengensai and Inose Kohosai. He won prizes for his work at numbers of exhibitions and was patronized by the Imperial Household.
The basket on offer has a simple but elegant elongated shape and it was finely woven with smoked bamboo likely circa 1910s-1920s, late Meiji to early Taisho period. The body was constructed with Hexagonal Plaiting for the main body, reinforced with twining in the upper and lower portions. The special design was reserved for an mouth ring...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo
Important Miniature Japanese Bamboo Basket by Hayakawa Shokosai I
Located in Atlanta, GA
A miniature bamboo basket woven by Hayakawa Shokosai I (1815-1897) circa 1885, an important example of the work by the artist who is considered as the founding father of Japanese modern bamboo art and the first ever signed his own work thus elevating bamboo weaving from a craft into an art form. The miniature basket was traditionally used during Sencha tea ceremony. It was woven from bamboo (madake) and rattan using...
Category
Antique 1880s Japanese Japonisme Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Unique Japanese Woven Bamboo Hanging Ikebana Basket Suzuki Gengensai
By Suzuki Gengensai
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rare hanging ikebana basket by Japanese bamboo artist Suzuki Gengensai (1891-1950) circa 1923-50. This elegant hanakago was made entirly from white bamboo. It consists of a square footed platform with bent bamboo rods on four corners converging onto the top into an open birdcage-like form, which is to be hung from a hooked bamboo rod. The platform features a square plating base and finely woven edges and feet and a single strand of rope fence. A separate ikebana container...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Modern Scholar's Objects
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Elegant Japanese Lacquered Ikebana Bamboo Basket
Located in Atlanta, GA
A vintage Japanese ikebana made from lacquered bamboo basketry circa first half of the 20th century. This piece of bamboo art displays an very light and delicate classic tapered squa...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Scholar's Objects
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Japanese Bamboo Basket Ikebana by Hayakawa Shokosai IV
By Hayakawa Shokosai IV
Located in Atlanta, GA
A lovely Japanese bamboo basket by Hayakawa Shokosai IV, the fourth generation of the Shokosai lineage, one of the best known in the Japanese Bamboo art...
Category
Vintage 1920s Japanese Japonisme Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo
Japanese Bamboo Basket Ikebana by Yamashita Kochikusai
By Yamashita Kochikusai
Located in Atlanta, GA
Yamashita Kochikusai (1876-1947) was a bamboo artist from Osaka, Kansai region. He apprenticed under Wada Waichisai I (1851-1901), becoming independent in 1901. His students include ...
Category
Vintage 1920s Japanese Japonisme Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo
Japanese Hanging Bamboo Ikebana Basket Signed
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese bamboo Ikebana hanging basket circa 1920s-1940s, made with "sooted" bamboo (susutake in Japanese). This bamboo material was collected from traditional thatched-roof houses...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bamboo
Japanese Bamboo Basket by Higashi Takesonosai
Located in Atlanta, GA
A handwoven bamboo basket by Japanese bamboo artist Higashi Takesonosai (1915-2003), in the form of a traditional rice container. It was woven with...
Category
20th Century Japanese Japonisme Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo, Wood
Antique Japanese Gourd Shape Bamboo Ikebana Basket
Located in Atlanta, GA
A lovely Japanese bamboo ikebana basket in the shape of gourd with an open mouth and a body circa 1920s-1940s. The piece was woven in great details and styles with mostly irregular a...
Category
20th Century Japanese Japonisme Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Sculpture Honma Hideaki
By Honma Hideaki
Located in Atlanta, GA
A bamboo table top sculpture by Japanese bamboo artist Honma Hideaki (b. 1959) made in early 2000s. The basket form sculpture was a creative ikebana and could be used as such or simply as a okimono (decorative piece). The piece is of an unusual oval dish form with the wall irregularly outlined with bent bamboo, thousand-line construction form the upper part of the wall and the patterned twining was added in the lower part to give it a visual shift from airiness to solidity. A large piece of bamboo was selected as the base.
Signed "Hide" underneath. An American Midwest collection.
Honma Hideaki was born in Sado, Niigata prefecture. He studied under Honma Kazuaki...
Category
Early 2000s Japanese Organic Modern Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bamboo
Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Sculpture Honma Hideaki
By Honma Hideaki
Located in Atlanta, GA
Titled "Cocoon", this wall hanging bamboo sculpture was made by Honma Hideaki (Japanese, b. 1959) in 2005 and originally purchased from Tai Modern, Sata Fe,...
Category
Early 2000s Japanese Organic Modern Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bamboo
Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Sculpture Fujinuma Noboru
By Fujinuma Noboru
Located in Atlanta, GA
A woven bamboo sculpture in a basket (ikebana) form named "Dragonfly" by Japanese bamboo artist Fujinuma Noboru (b. 1945) circa 2003. Constructed f...
Category
Early 2000s Japanese Organic Modern Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bamboo
Japanese Woven Bamboo Ikebana Basket
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese woven bamboo basket with handle from early 20th century, circa end of Meiji to Taisho period. The basket was constructed in the form o...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bamboo
Japanese Bamboo Basket Ikebana Suzuki Gengensai
By Suzuki Gengensai
Located in Atlanta, GA
An elegantly woven bamboo basket with handle as an ikenana container by Suzuki Gengensai (1891-1950) circa 1923-50. Suzuki Gengensai was from Kansai region and active in Osaka. He studied bamboo art under Yamashita Kochikusai (1876-1947) and became an independent artist in 1913. He received his artist name Gengensai in 1914 and in 1923 he changed the characters to Gen, a slight written variation of the character. This basket was signed in this later variation, which helps to date the piece to post 1923.
The basket is woven entirely in a free style irregular plating on the body and with a twisted bundled handle. The surface is lacquered in a deep reddish color. The seemingly less rigid technique renders the piece a more rustic and natural aesthetic that is more suitable for certain occasions. It is singed on the base with artist's signature in the variation post 1923.
A very similar basket of the irregular weaving but without the handle is illustrated in plate 72 in "Baskets Masterpieces of Japanese Bamboo Art...
Category
20th Century Japanese Japonisme Scholar's Objects
Materials
Bamboo
Japanese Contemporary Bamboo Basket by Abe Motoshi
By Abe Motoshi
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese Ikebana basket woven by bamboo artist Abe Motoshi (Japanese, b. 1942). Constructed with Madake bamboo and rattan with technique of o...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Modern Scholar's Objects
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Japanese Bamboo Basket Ikebana by Abe Motoshi
By Abe Motoshi
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese Ikebana bamboo basket woven by artist Abe Motoshi (Japanese, b. 1942). Constructed with lacquered reddish Madake bamboo and rattan with technique of open and irregular twinning, the basket features an organic form with undulating woven surface with wavy crossing lines. The basket appears simple and refined, but the making process is deceivingly sophisticated. Clean and precise, it is of the signature style of Abe Motoshi's.
The basket is signed on the base. It comes with the original tomobako storage box with inscription of the title on the lid as well as the artist's name and seal under the lead. A yellow wrapping cloth and a printout of the artist's biography from Tai Modern...
Category
Early 2000s Japanese Modern Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Large Chinese Willow Basket
Located in Atlanta, GA
Early 20th century woven Chinese willow baskets. These beautifully shaped hand woven basket were originally used in the kitchen and gardens.
Category
Vintage 1920s Decorative Baskets
Materials
Reed, Willow
Early 20th Century Chinese Willow Basket
Located in Atlanta, GA
Early 20th century woven Chinese willow baskets. These beautifully shaped hand woven basket were originally used in the kitchen and gardens.
Category
Vintage 1920s Decorative Baskets
Materials
Reed, Willow
Japanese Woven Bamboo Ikebana Hatakeyama Seido
Located in Atlanta, GA
A beautifully hand-woven Japanese flower basket (ikebana) by bamboo artist Hatakeyama Seido (b. 1930). Entitled "Ajiro Spiral Pattern Flower Basket", the piece was made in 2007 and purchased from Tai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Organic Modern Sculptures and Car...
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Japanese Contemporary Bamboo Basket by Abe Motoshi
By Abe Motoshi
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese Ikebana basket woven by bamboo artist Abe Motoshi (Japanese, b. 1942). In an organic vase form with elegant, curved wall with reinfo...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Modern Scholar's Objects
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
