2006
Flower Basket
Kosuge Hōunsai KōgetsuJapanese, born 1932
Finely woven bamboo baskets and trays have been used in Japan to hold floral offerings at Buddhist altars from the eighth century onward. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, bamboo wares found favor with tea masters as flower containers for the tea alcove, and they remain popular for contemporary practitioners of ikebana (the art of flower arranging).
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