Peerless Fruit or Offering Tray (Morikago)
Fujinuma Noboru Japanese
Not on view
Peerless was made in 2012—the year Fujinuma was designated a Living National Treasure—using diamond-twill plaiting (ajiro-ami) in the center and bundled plaiting with a swallowtail design for the sides and base. It was exhibited at the Japanese Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition that same year. Fujinuma generally creates two types of baskets: refined, finely plaited, traditional works like this one for public exhibition, and rustic, bold, and experimental ones for himself. His signature palette emulates the deep brownish-red color of smoked bamboo, an expensive, rare material usually obtained from old straw-thatched farmhouse ceilings, where smoke absorbed from the hearth below over the course of decades or even centuries changes it to an auburn color.
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