HAYAKAWA SHOKOSAI V (1932 – 2011)

Hayakawa Shokosai V was the son of Hayakawa Shokosai IV, under whom he studied basketry for fourteen years. He went on to hold his first one man show in 1965 and in 2003 he was designated a Living National Treasure (Ningen Kokuho) by the Japanese government. He would employ techniques such as modern parallel construction, intricate rattan knotting and elegant dying, as seen in the present work.

A similar example is in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, object no. 2012.015.032, go to:

https://emuseum.cornell.edu/search/hayakawa%20shokkosai%20V/objects/images