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29                           Tanabe Chikuunsai I          1877-1937                    Kansai area                                       30                           Tanabe Chikuunsai I          1877-1937                    Kansai area

































































































      Shichiku tsubo-gata hanakago  Shichiku Bamboo (violet bamboo)  Tanabe Chikuunsai I was the   tradition (bunjin), practicing the art
                                                                originator of an uninterrupted and   of ikebana and calligraphy while
     Jar-shaped violet bamboo basket  Signed: Chikuunsai zō     still active and over a century old   studying Chinese painting                Funagata mori hanakago       Madake bamboo (timber bamboo),   Tomobako
                                   (made by Chikuunsai)         family lineage, and instrumental   and the Sencha tea ceremony.                                             copper otoshi                Asanoha-ami (diamond weaving)
      Dated Taishō 1 (1912)        Tomobako                     in the training of many prestigious                                            Boat-shaped flower basket
                                   Yatara-ami                   artists in the Kansai area. He was                                                                          Signed: Chikuunsai kore wo tsukuru
     41 (h) x 22 x 22 cm           (irregular weaving)          himself a scholar in the Chinese                                               25 (h) x 39 x 25 cm          (made by Chikuunsai)
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