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Japanese Tea Room Sumi-Kago Charcoal Basket, ChikuOSai browse these categories for related items... All Items: Artisan and Design:Folk Art: Pre 2000: item # 881025 Please refer to our stock # MOK2561 when inquiring.
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| Soot stained bamboo (susudake) ripples about the rim of this intricate woven hand-made paper lined tea room charcoal basket by ChikuOSai. Tightly woven strands of running bamboo rush like water past the vertical bands of reddish bamboo. The bottom is woven in an intricate crosshatch, signed on one corner. 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 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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