JAPANESE AND KOREAN ART 23 march 2022

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IIZUKA HOSAI II (1872–1934) OR IIZUKA ROKANSAI (1890–1958)
A bamboo flower basket
Showa era (1926-1989), late 1920s/early 1930s
Of madake (timber bamboo) with applications of dust and lacquer,
worked in diagonal free-style and bundled plaiting and wrapping,
signed on a cross bar on the base Hosai Sanjin (Hosai the Recluse);
with an otoshi (water container) formed from a stem of bamboo and
cut with vertical striations
11 1/2in (29.2cm) high
$2,500 - 4,000
During the 1920s and up until the early 1930s, Iizuka Hosai II
frequently signed baskets that had been made by his younger brother
Iizuka Rokansai. The use on this basket of the tabane-ami (bundled
plaiting) technique, pioneered by Rokansai, suggests that this basket
is likely from his hands.
700
FUJINUMA NOBORU (B. 1945; LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE, 2012)
A bamboo flower basket
Heisei era (1989-2019), circa 2004
Of nemagaridake bamboo (Sasa kurilensis) with staining, executed
in bundled openwork free-style plaiting and wrapping, signed on the
base Noboru rokujusai (Noboru, aged 60)
11 3/4in (29.8cm) high
$2,500 - 4,000
(detail)
Born in Otawara (Tochigi Prefecture) Fujinuma Noboru started his
career as a graphic designer and photographer before apprenticing in
1976 to bamboo artist Yagisawa Keizō. He was admitted the following
year to the Traditional Crafts New Works Exhibition and was named
a Living National Treasure in 2012 in recognition of his success in
developing new variations on the ara-ami, “rough” or free-style plaiting
language, pioneered in the early twentieth century by artists such as
Hayakawa Shokosai III and Iizuka Rokansai.
701
A WOOD SHAKU DOKEI (PILLAR CLOCK) WITH NANBAN FIGURES
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
The glazed hood with a sliding front door above a narrow trunk with
movable brass hour markers terminating in a key drawer, holding the
key and the brass hour-pointer formed as a bee, the movement within
a brass housing engraved on the front with a Jesuit priest and an
attendant beneath a large parasol, with a lead weight to control the
movement, the drawer pulls of bone
With an unassociated wood storage box
17in (43.2cm) high
701
$2,000 - 3,000
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