Flower Basket (Hanakago)

mid-20th century

Not on view

After World War II, the Hayakawa bamboo master Shōkosai IV moved from Osaka to Kyoto, where he established the new family workshop. He closely followed many of the examples made by his father, as in this coarse-weave flower basket made of smoked dwarf bamboo (hōbichiku) salvaged from demolished farmhouses, many of which were hundreds of years old. The rich brown color of the recovered dwarf bamboo is the result of long-term exposure to hearth or kitchen fires.

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四代早川尚古斎造　提梁花籃
Title: Flower Basket (Hanakago)
Artist: Hayakawa Shōkosai IV (Japanese, 1902–1975)
Period: Shōwa period (1926–89)
Date: mid-20th century
Culture: Japan
Medium: Smoked dwarf bamboo
Dimensions: H. 20 in. (50.8 cm); W. 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
Classification: Bamboo
Credit Line: Gift of Diane and Arthur Abbey, 2019
Object Number: 2019.424.7
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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