Page 40 - The Beauty Of Japanese Bamboo Art, An Exhibition By The Mingei Gallery

27 Kameyama Kōchikusai 1877-1937 Kansai area 28 Wada Waichisai III 1899-1975 Kansai area

Tsuri-hanakago Madake bamboo (timber bamboo) reproduced three-dimensionally, and technique and mutsume-ami
this type of basket became known (hexagonal weaving) techniques
Hanging flower basket in the Ryū- Signed: Kochikusai as the Ryū-Rikyō style. Kameyama to make this piece. The openings
Riikyō style Tomobako Kochikusai is a mysterious artist of mutsume-ami are quite large, and
Mutsume-ami (hexagonal weaving) because we have almost no this device highlights the bouquet.
ca. 1910-1930 information about him, except for Moreover, the suspension cord’s
This basket is in what is called the years of his birth and death and deep violet color and the basket’s
28 (h) x 34.5 x 34.5 cm the Ryū-Rikyō style. Ryū-Rikyō was the area in which he worked. He circular shape give this piece a very
a pseudonym for Yanagisawa Kien was based in the Kansai region. It elegant appearance. Works by this Teiryō Hanakago Susudake bamboo (old smoked Tomobako with mention “Seisetu
(1703-1758) who was a famous can be assumed that he must have artist can be seen in the Asian Art madake bamboo) fūujō-shi" (The studio where rain
Nanga artist. He painted a Chinese had a relationship with Chikuunsai Museum (Cotsen Collection), Flower basket with handle and wind may manifest blessings
basket which Tanabe Chikuunsai I I and that Tanaka Kōsai was one of San Francisco, and in the Signed: Waichisai zō in the Western Settsu region)
(1877-1937) first studied and then his students. He used the plaiting Minneapolis Institute of Arts. 41.5 (h) x 22 x 21 cm (made by Waichisai)