Page 32 - The Beauty Of Japanese Bamboo Art, An Exhibition By The Mingei Gallery

21 22 Hayakawa Shōkosai IV 1902-1975 Kansai area 23 Hayakawa Shōkosai IV 1902-1975 Kansai area

Tsunogata tō hanakago Ox
Horn shaped flower basket

30 (h) x 10 x 10 cm
Shiratake Bamboo (white bamboo)
Signed: Shōkosai zō
(made by Shōkosai)
Seals: “Hayakawa Tadashi (Chū) in”
Shiratake hanakago Son of Hayakawa Shōkosai III, who and “Shōkosai”
was a very harsh teacher and died Tomobako
Flower basket prematurely in 1922, Shōkosai IV
gradually mastered a full range “Ushidoshi ni chinamite, tsunogata Tennen-dake teiryō hanakago Madake Bamboo (timber bamboo)
42 (h) x 16 x 16 cm of techniques. His professional to, hanakago, Shōkosai zō,
career was interrupted by the Yonsei Shōkosai” Natural bamboo flower basket Signed: Yonsei Shōkosai zō
Shiratake Bamboo (white bamboo) Second World War. After Japan’s with handle (made by Shōkosai IV)
defeat he moved to Kyoto and “This was made in the year of Ox, Seals: “Hayakawa Tadashi (Chū) in”
Signed: Yonsei Shōkosai (Shōkosai IV) mostly created baskets for both Flower basket in the shape ca. 1930-1945 and “Shōkosai”
Tomobako the Chinese and the Japanese of an ox horn, made by Shōkosai, Tomobako
style of tea-drinking. with seal Shōkosai IV” 35 (h) x 35 x 35 cm