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19                           Hayakawa Shōkosai I          1825-1897                    Kansai area                                       20                           Hayakawa Shōkosai III        1864-1922                    Kansai area





























































































      Sage kudamono-kago           Bamboo, metal fitting and jade rings  “The fruit basket with handles: I attest   in this category. In 1877, and again
                                   Signed: Shōkosai zō kore     that this was made by Hayakawa   in 1881, he was awarded by Yūkō
      Fruit basket with handle     (Shōkosai made this)         Shōkosai I, authenticated by Shōkosai   Medal of Merit at the Tokyo National
                                                                III, in the early winter of Taisho 8   Industrial Exhibition (Meiji jūnen      Teiryo hanakago              Madake Bamboo (timber bamboo)  He worked in Tokyo under the name   and calligrapher. He created only a
      21.5 (h) x 24 x 24 cm        Tomobako authenticated by Hayakawa   (1919), the year of tsuchinoto-hitsuji.”  Naikoku Kangyō Hakurankai Tōkyō).                         Signed: Sansei Shōkosai      Shōsai before returning to Osaka    few sencha-related bamboo baskets,
                                   Shōkosai III: “Sage kudamono-kago,                        He was also the first bamboo artist               Flower basket with handle    (Shōkosai III)               in 1905 and succeeding to the family   focusing instead on departing from
                                   Kore senkō shodai no tsukuru mono   Hayakawa Shōkosai I, considered    to sign his works.                                                Tomobako                     name following the premature   Chinese models (karamono utsushi)
                                   nari, yotte kore o shōsu, Taisho   to be the founding father of bamboo                                      ca.1905-1922                                              death of his elder brother. This   and developing a flexible and organic
                                   tsuchinoto-hitsuji shotō, Sansei   art in Japan, is also the first double-                                                               Hayakawa Shōkosai III was the fifth   broadly cultured artist was also an   style that exerted an important
                                   Shōkosai, with seal Shōkosai”  award winning artist for his work                                            45 (h) x 17 x 17 cm          son of Hayakawa Shōkosai I.    accomplished musician, ink painter,   influence on later bamboo art.
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