Juunsai (active mid-20th century)


A Bamboo Sumitori Basket for Charcoal Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa era (1926-1989), early/mid-20th centuryOf madake bamboo, chiefly executed in ajiro-ami (twill plaiting) with knotted rattan on the bent-work corner pieces, some dust dressing on the exterior and black-lacquered paper on the interior, signed Juunsai 9 1/2in (24.1cm) diameter
|Jununsai appears not to be recorded, but the use of twill plaiting and the application of dust to the exterior suggest that he worked in either Tochigi Prefecture or Tokyo in the orbit of the Iizuka dynasty of bamboo artists.