Japan's Basketry & Bamboo Weaving

About this book

Tell a creel from a colander, a tea basket from a flower basket. Japan's daily life runs on woven things — market carriers, fishing creels, charcoal baskets, sieves, measures, offering baskets — yet no English guide has ever organised that world in one place. This complete guide presents 200 baskets, weavers, weaves and working uses in one uniform, comparable format: each entry's history and setting, its materials and weaving, its form, weight and character, and how it is used, visited and cared for. Travel the bamboo city of Beppu and the thousand-line benches of Suruga, learn the six great weaves, read any basket in four checks — base, wall, rim, hand — and finish with the history, proverbs and honest buying ethics of the craft. A working companion for travellers, cooks, gardeners and craft lovers, written to be used for decades, like the baskets it describes.

Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.