Peerless Fruit or Offering Tray (Morikago)

2012

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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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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