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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 # 881028 Please refer to our stock # MOK2562 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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| Dark bamboo (susudake) is tightly woven into a strong and impressive hand-made paper lined tea room charcoal basket by ChikuOSai. The proceeds of these sales will go entirely to the family of the artist. A thick rim is bound to the upper edge with very tightly woven knots, as are bound all the corners. The bottom is woven in an intricate crosshatch, signed on one corner on an inserted tab of red bamboo. It is roughly 10 inches (25 cm) diameter and in perfect (unused) condition. This is the last o the baskets we are offering which were made by a good friend and respected teacher, the bamboo artist and Mia-Daiku (Temple carpenter) Kitagawa Susumu under his craftsmans name ChikuOSai (II) (b. 1932). Mr. Kitagawa was apprenticed from a young age to Ikenobo basket maker ChikuOSai 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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