Or you may wish to contact the gallery. There are now less than a hundred working bamboo artists in Japan. The young people who have taken up the call to learn bamboo basket making make a commitment of time that is hard for us as Westerners to comprehend. The first ten years is devoted to learn the basic techniques of cutting, dyeing, and plaiting bamboo. After this is mastered, another one or two decades is spend developing as an artist.
Artists begin to gain full recognition as they come into their fifties and sixties.
There are a number of basket makers who are still working in their eighties. It is an honor for our gallery to represent some of the top living bamboo artists of Japan. A bamboo basket or sculpture made for exhibition involves anywhere from three to six months of work by the artist. Examples of the work produced by the artists that Tai Gallery represents are featured on this page. Click here to see some of the bamboo art that is currently available for sale .