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Boat-Shaped Flower Basket (Hanakago)
Fujinuma Noboru Japanese
Not on view
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.
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