Page 31 - The Beauty Of Japanese Bamboo Art, An Exhibition By The Mingei Gallery

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.