A Tall Handled Bamboo Flower Basket Showa era (1926-1989), mid-20th century Of smoked madake bamboo and rattan, the cylindrical body worked in twining over diagonal plaiting, the shoulder and foot finished in horizontal plaiting, the tall handle wrapped with a spiral band, the body and handle with passages of decorative knotting, signed on the base Chikuyosai kore o tsukuru, and with a bamboo cylindrical otoshi (water holder) with a copper liner With a wood tomobako storage box 20 3/4in (52.7cm) high