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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)
