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Start Over Collection place Kōshin'etsu region, Chubu region, Honshu
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 9-23080, no description available.
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 9-22914, 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 9-23079, 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 9-22985, 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.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, neko, accession number 9-22942, described as woven basket- made on a frame called a nekoamidai using a process called nakoami.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, neko, accession number 9-22946, described as A woven basket.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, shoikago, accession number 9-22941, described as A woven basket carried on the back.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, shoikago, accession number 9-22940, described as A woven basket that could have been carried on the back or at the waist.

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