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25 Maeda Chikubōsai II 1917-2003 Kansai area
Uroko-ami hanakago Madake bamboo (timber bamboo), A native of Sakai City in Osaka, the Chikubōsai name in 1952. In 1995,
rattan and lacquer Maeda Chikubōsai II studied first he was the third bamboo artist to be
Flower basket under his father, Chikubōsai I, named a Living National Treasure.
Signed: Chikubōsai zō kore and from 1936 onwards under
29 (h) x 23 x 23 cm (Chikubōsai made this) Yamamoto Chikuryōsai I (Shōen),
Tomobako becoming an independent artist in
Uroko-ami (fish-scale plaiting) 1941. He succeeded to