Double Bellflower Fruit or Offering Tray (Yaekikyō morikago)

Katsushiro Sōhō Japanese

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In Kantō, the creative traditions of the Iizuka family were transmitted to Katsushiro Sōhō. After finishing other apprenticeships, Sōhō studied with Saitō Bunseki (1910–1991), a student of Iizuka Rōkansai, who taught him techniques developed or used by the master. This experience greatly influenced Sōhō’s style, which often draws inspiration from nature, evoking waves breaking on rocks or shafts of sunlight filtered through trees. His Double Bellflower, made for the 53rd Eastern Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition, is an elegant, poetic ode to the simple beauty of an autumn flower. Worked in bundled plaiting (tabane-ami), an Iizuka family tradition, the double-layered basket is finished with a coat of lacquer.

Double Bellflower Fruit or Offering Tray (Yaekikyō morikago), Katsushiro Sōhō (Japanese, born 1934), Timber bamboo, rattan, and lacquer, Japan

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Double Bellflower Fruit or Offering Tray (Yaekikyō morikago), Katsushiro Sōhō (Japanese, born 1934), Timber bamboo, rattan, and lacquer, Japan
Double Bellflower Fruit or Offering Tray (Yaekikyō morikago), Katsushiro Sōhō (Japanese, born 1934), Timber bamboo, rattan, and lacquer, Japan

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