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Start Over Collection place Chūbu region, Honshu, Japan Accession number Acc.4789
Hearst Museum object titled Back cushion, neko, accession number 9-23036, described as Back cushion and basket, or "neko," woven from rice straw ("wara").
Hearst Museum object titled Back cushion, senakaate, accession number 9-23028, described as Long, rectangular back cushion, or "senaka-ate," woven from rice straw ("wara") and consisting of two "sides" or layers. One side is 8 1-inch single-plait braids wide, lying vertically side-by-side with slight separation. They are joined by a single cord pushed through braids horizontally at their vertical midpoint. The other side of the cushion feature a basket weave: bunches of untwisted/unbraided rice straw form "warps" held in place by thin braided "wefts" spaced at roughly 5" intervals. These braids become untwisted, loose straw along the top. Entire cushion is encircled by braided "rim." Two straw cords attached at opposite points along sides form carrying shoulder straps; these cords are pushed through bottom of cushion just above rim and knotted together on opposite side. length - 22", width - 11", thickness - 1.5
Hearst Museum object titled Backpack basket, seio-kago, accession number 9-23050, described as Backpack basket, or "seio-kago," woven from cypress bark ("hinoki"), originally collected in 1929 for the Attic Museum. The dealer Sunagawa-san said that it was from another dealer in Hotaka in northern Nagano Prefecture. It is knitted in the simplest "ichimatsu" design. Two "loops" made of a weft spanning 3 warps are in the third row of wefts from the rim.
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 9-23090, described as flexible woven bag used to carry obento (lunch) on back
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 9-23080, no description available.
Hearst Museum object titled Bark, accession number 9-23237, described as A circular bundle of dark, raw material- karamushi bark.
Hearst Museum object titled Bark, kaba, accession number 9-23204, described as small rolled bark, kaba (cherry tree bark) used in the manufacture of Japanese rural basketry
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 9-23079, described as Backpack style basket worn on back with straps. Colored fabric in straps. Fabric down the middle on one side. "Migonawa" straw rope.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 9-22914, described as A woven basket carried on the back. A deep slit let into one end suggests it was designed for carrying a long (handled) tool like an ax or saw.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 9-22985, described as A woven basket that is very "soft" and pliable and has a large capacity. It was carried on the back and it seems likely that it was used for relatively light but bulky loads like fiddlehead fern or mulberry leaves.

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