Signed underneath Chikuryosai kore o tsukuru (Chikuryosai made this), with the artist’s kao (monogram)
Fitted wood tomobako storage box inscribed outside Karasei o naratte morimonokago (Serving Basket Copied from a Chinese-Style Piece); signed inside Chikuryosai kore o tsukuru (Chikuryosai made this); seals: Yama Takesada in (Seal [of] Yama[moto] Takesada), Chikuryosai
The eldest son of Yamamoto Chikuryosai I, this famous maker inherited his father’s art name in 1929 and continued the family tradition, plaiting baskets mainly in versions of the Chinese style. Few morikago (serving baskets) by either artist are known, but for examples by Chikuryosai I, see Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Fendre L'Air: Art of Bamboo in Japan, exhibition catalogue, 2018, pp. 102–103 and Erik Thomsen Asian Art, Japanese Paintings and Works of Art, New York, 2010, cat. no. 21 (dated 1916).