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39                           Tanabe Chikuunsai II         1910-2000                    Kansai area                                       40                           Tanabe Chikuunsai II         1910-2000                    Kansai area































































































      Karamono utsushi hirokuchi hanakago  Hōbichiku bamboo                                                                                    Kikkō sukashi-ami suehiro hanakago  Madake bamboo (timber bamboo)   Kikkō-sukashi-ami is the same
                                   (Phoenix tail bamboo)                                                                                                                    and rattan                   technique of hexagonal weaving
      Chinese style flower basket                                                                                                              Flower basket                                             as mutsume-ami, but the Tanabe
      with wide mouth              Signed: Chikuunsai zō                                                                                                                    Signed: Chikuunsai zō        family call it this because they use
                                   (made by Chikuunsai)                                                                                        ca. 1944-1955                (made by Chikuunsai)         extremely thin sticks of bamboo
      ca. 1944-1955                Tomobako with mention of Tekisuikyo                                                                                                      Tomobako with mention of Tekisuikyo  which make the weaving
                                   Gozame-ami (mat plaiting)                                                                                   40 (h) x 19 x 19 cm          Kikkō sukashi-ami            as fine as lace (= sukashi).
      23 (h) x 22 x 22 cm                                                                                                                                                   (hexagonal weaving)
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