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Skyscrapers
Yako Hōdō Japanese
Not on view
Yako Hōdō, originally based in Niigata Prefecture, moved to Tokyo and studied with Baba Shōdō (1925–1996), a visionary bamboo artist who encouraged him to explore the possibilities of contemporary sculpture. Hōdō earned recognition for his large-scale compositions of split bamboo and began showing work at the Nitten exhibitions in 1973.
Skyscrapers, which displays a type of parallel construction (kushime) and bending (mage), represents his style during this period. Hōdō supported his family, meanwhile, by producing bamboo lampshades. In the mid-1990s, he began making functional pieces, such as flower baskets, which he submitted to the annual Japanese Traditional Art Crafts Exhibitions.
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