MIMURA CHIKUHŌ (1973-) A Sculptural Handled Basket Heisei era (1989-2019), early 21st centuryProperty from an important San Franciso estateMIMURA CHIKUHŌ (1973-)A Sculptural Handled Basket Heisei era (1989-2019), early 21st centuryThe double-walled bamboo body plaited in free-style tabane-ami (bundled plaiting) over a core of regular mutsume-ami (hexagonal plaiting), one side tapering toward a handle woven into the other side, signed on the base with incised characters Chikuhō 10 x 11 5/8 x 11 3/4in (25.5 x 29.5 x 30cm)Mimura Chikuhō's sculptural basketry, although informal in external appearance, depends for its structural stability on a regular core of hexagonal plaiting, over which he interweaves wider bands of bundled bamboo strips, creating the impression of a cascading mountain stream.