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Japanese Tea Room Sumi-Kago Charcoal Basket, ChikuOSai browse these categories for related items... Directory: Artisan and Design: Folk Art: Pre 2000: item # 876462 Please refer to our stock # MOK2555 when inquiring.
The Kura 16-1 ShimoWakakusa-Cho Murasakino Kita-ku Kyoto 603-8234 tel.81-75-432-6980 Guest Book 450.00 |
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| Age darkened bamboo (susudake) is woven in a complicated pattern; the simple elegant form capped with a strip of white bamboo cross-stitched to the rim and lined with black paper in a style known as Rikyu-gata by professional basket weaver, ChikuOSai. This is the style preferred by Sen-no-Rikyu and thus bears his name. It is roughly 10 inches (25 cm) diameter and in perfect (unused) condition. These baskets were made by a good friend and respected teacher, the bamboo artist and Mia-Daiku (Temple carpenter) Kitagawa Susumu under his craftsmans name Chiku-O Sai (II) (b. 1932). Mr. Kitagawa was apprenticed from a young age to Ikenobo basket maker Chiku-OSai I. However in the backlash against traditionalism Japan embraced in the 1950s, he was forced to subsequently train as a traditional carpenter, establishing his own company which he ran until in his 70s while keeping his basketry skills polished in non-business hours. Using antique soot-stained bamboo (susu-take, highly prized as it takes decades to absorb the color) which he himself had saved from the ceilings of old houses and temples, he has polished, sliced, bent and woven the stubborn media into these fine paper-lined kago. Unfortunately Mr. Kitagawa has succumbed to Alzheimer’s and is no longer producing these superb works of art. We arranged with his family to offer a number of his sumi-kago, the proceeds of which will go entirely to his family for his health care in the facility in which he now resides. | |||||||||||
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