rantai shikki　籃胎漆器

KEY WORD :　art history / crafts

The technique whereby bamboo strips are woven into shapes and coated with lacquer. Also called kagoji 籠地 (basket base) when a basket is made with peeled bamboo or vines and lacquered. Made in Han period China and late Joumon period Japan, there are examples in the *Shousouin 正倉院. It is still made in Thailand and Burma and, in modern Japan, in Takamatsu 高松 Kagawa prefecture, Kurume 久留米 Fukuoka prefecture, and Beppu 別府 Ooita prefecture.

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