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 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
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