Peerless Fruit or Offering Tray (Morikago)
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.
Artwork Details
- 藤沼昇造 「無双」 網代編盛籃
- Title: Peerless Fruit or Offering Tray (Morikago)
- Artist: Fujinuma Noboru (Japanese, born 1945)
- Period: Heisei period (1989–2019)
- Date: 2012
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Timber bamboo, rattan, and lacquer
- Dimensions: H. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm); W. 5 7/8 in. (15 cm); D. 5 7/8 in. (15 cm)
- Classification: Bamboo
- Credit Line: Gift of Diane Abbey, 2019
- Object Number: 2019.425.2
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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