ticketsMember | Make a donation

Boat-Shaped Flower Basket (Hanakago)

2001
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
This boat-shaped flower basket by Fujinuma Noboru is made with alternating twill-plaiting (ajiro-ami). Fujinuma, from Tochigi Prefecture, studied with Yagisawa Keizō (1927–2006) and consequently became a member of the Iizuka family lineage. He began his career in engineering and photography before discovering his true métier was bamboo. After his immersion in European artistic traditions while traveling in Paris in 1974, Fujinuma felt compelled to learn more about his own culture and the traditional arts of Japan. Inspired by the works of Shōno Shōunsai, he began by making simple bamboo objects. Later, he worked as an independent bamboo artist, consulting with such well-known masters as Iizuka Shōkansai. Fujinuma first submitted his work to the Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition in 1980.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 藤沼昇造　女竹網代編花籃
  • Title: Boat-Shaped Flower Basket (Hanakago)
  • Artist: Fujinuma Noboru (Japanese, born 1945)
  • Period: Heisei period (1989–2019)
  • Date: 2001
  • Culture: Japan
  • Medium: Simon bamboo (medake) and lacquer
  • Dimensions: H. 8 in. (20,3 cm); W. 20 in. (50.8 cm); D. 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)
  • Classification: Bamboo
  • Credit Line: Lent by Diane and Arthur Abbey
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art