Antique Japanese Bamboo Flower Basket Hanakago Wisteria Branch Handle ~16"H Paper Brass mounts top and bottom

Brass mounts top and bottom

This exquisite piece of 100+ year old antique Japanese hand woven cotton fabric features a stencil dyed cotton 3 panel fabric created using the traditional katazome dyeing technique

75" tall by 10" wide (19

With exception of fading color on edge (see picture 8)

Condition: Minor age wear consistent with use and handling

Antique Japanese Bamboo Flower Basket Hanakago Wisteria Branch Handle ~16"H Paper Brass mounts top and bottomAntique Japanese Bamboo Flower Basket (, Hanakago), Wisteria Branch Handle Japan, early 20th century Approx. 16"H 10"D (41 25 cm) A sculptural ikebana flower basket (, hanakago) woven in wide, flat cut bamboo strips in a bold diagonal plaiting pattern that gives the globular body its dynamic, swirling surface. The handle is a single unworked wisteria branch bark retained, gnarled and sinuous arching high above the basket in the naturalistic wabi