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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
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