Page 28 - The Beauty Of Japanese Bamboo Art, An Exhibition By The Mingei Gallery

17 Kyokusai active 1930-1950 Kanto area 18 Wada Waichisai III 1899-1975 Kansai area

Eji teiryō hanakago Signed: Waichisai saku for flower baskets. A piece of incense phrase. It may be translated “There
(made by Waichisai) is placed in the basket to perfume are blessings even in the rain and
Flower basket with handle in the Tomobako with the mention “Seisetu the room, or these days the Eiji-kago wind.” This might be Waichisai III’s
Jidai take hanakago Chigusa Susudake bamboo (smoked bamboo) Kyokusai is an unknown bamboo shape of a palace guard’s torch fūujō-shi” (The studio where rain may be simply used as a flower personal philosophy - “Every cloud
artist. It appears that he worked and wind may manifest blessings basket. Seisetsu (西摂) refers to has a silver lining” would be
Old bamboo flower basket called Signed: Kyokusai saku in Tokyo but there is no detailed 64 (h) x 28 x 28 cm in the Western Settsu region) modern southeastern parts of Hyōgo the English equivalent.
“Chigusa” (Thousand Grasses) (made by Kyokusai) information about him. prefecture. Waichisai III’s father
Tomobako Hōbichiku Bamboo (Phoenix tail This kind of bamboo basket is known (Waichisai II) visited Arima hot spa Wada Waichisai III studied under
ca. 1930-1950 Magaki-ami weaving bamboo), rattan and lacquer as Eji-kago (衛士籠). The shape to recuperate and taught bamboo his father Wada Waichisai II
(striped fence) (fuki-urushi) is based on that of a torch used crafting there. Fūujō (風雨情) may from 1911, and succeeded
63.1 (h) x 20.5 x 18.3 cm by the palace guards, but adapted be based on a Taoist or Confucian to the Waichisai name in 1933.