Japanese Baskets

A precious volume showcasing the most exquisite Japanese bamboo baskets from the Naej Collection, whose pieces range from the seventeenth century to today.

Bamboo wickerwork is one of the oldest traditional art forms of Japan: Since the eighth century, finely woven bamboo baskets have been used in Buddhist liturgy and later in the tea ceremony. Over the centuries, these fine containers became covetable objects, used as vases to present ikebana creations (the Japanese art of arr…