Storage basket for dried sardines

Object Details

• Artist

  Hiroshima Kazuo 廣島一夫 (Japan, 1915-2013)

• Description

  Object is a bulbous shaped bamboo container, with a wide mouth and tight fitting lid. Four feet raise the body slightly off the ground, and a twisted double stranded bamboo handle attached to both sides of the vessel extends high above the lid. A brown vine material is used to secure the handle and as part of the finishing to the interior of the basket.

  The bottom and sides of the basket are woven in two separate patterns with corresponding differences in color and texture. The bottom has a close weave twined base, roughly 26 centimeters square, with wide warp and alternating one wide/three narrow strips as weft. The interior surface color of the bamboo is a greenish-yellow. The narrow weft edges are cut, bent under, and covered with wide strips. These two edges are then lashed with brown vine material, which is also sewn around the opposing sides to form a square.

  The sides of the basket continue the wide greenish-yellow weave, simple twine. From the exterior, the tan surface color of the weft predominates, creating a distinctive contrast from the interior square. The rim is plain and rounded, with wide strips of bamboo tightly lashed around the internal structure. Under the rim is an additional thick band of bamboo, fitted tightly in place. The sturdy handle is woven into the body of the basket and tightly wrapped and knotted with vine material about halfway up on both sides.

  The lid has a flanged rim, fits snugly to the body and is woven from the center in a circular close weave twined technique, similar to the basket body. At the center, the warps are raised to accomodate a hollow section of bamboo woven in, to serve as a handle.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Hinokage, Miyazaki prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Nakamura Kunio

• Type

  Container

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• Date

  1990s

• Name

  Hiroshima, Kazuo

• Place

  Hinokage, Japan, Miyazaki prefecture

• Topic

  Contemporary Art, Heisei era (1989 - 2019), Art, Fishes, Japanese Art, Bamboo

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Containers