Chikuryōsai made this basket with Madake bamboo, using free-style asanoha hexagonal plaiting and wrapping; incised signature on bottom reads 'Made by Chikuryōsai'. Comes with its original lacquered bamboo otoshi (water...
Chikuryōsai made this basket with Madake bamboo, using free-style asanoha hexagonal plaiting and wrapping; incised signature on bottom reads "Made by Chikuryōsai". Comes with its original lacquered bamboo otoshi (water container) and original fitted kiri-wood tomobako storage box inscribed outside "White-Bamboo Flower Basket" and signed inside Chikuryōsai with a seal Chikuryō and with the date August 1920. Outside paper label is inscribed "Flower basket by Chikuryōsai";