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tsuzura 葛籠 / つづら wicker box, wicker clothes hamper

. kago 籠 / 篭 / かご basket, baskets of all kinds .
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Originally a kind of box or basket with a lid, is woven out of tsuzurafuji (Sinomenium acutum, otuzurafuji) vines.
Other tsuzura are made of bamboo.


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Many of these boxes are made to order, often at the wedding, and come with a family crest (kamon 家紋).

. koori 行李 wicker trunk, box to carry luggage  . -
yanagigoori 柳行李 wicker trunk (made from willow branches)
fuji goori 籐行李 from wisteria vines
take goori 竹行李 from bamboo
koori, katani 行李片荷 carrying boxes for travellers
It is also used to store things in the home.


. tsuzura つづら、tsuzurakazura 葛籠葛(つづらかずら)acebia vine .
tsuzurafuji 葛藤 (つづらふじ) Sabia vine
kigo for late summer
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tsuzura is also written as '九十九' (tsukumo) - winding and twisting - is the origin of the vine of Tsuzurafuji that twists and turns.

tsuzura-ori つづらおり / 葛折り a winding zig-zag mountain road

tsuzura shokunin 葛篭職人 craftsmen making wicker boxes


source : edoichiba.jp..tuzura...

. Edo craftsmen 江戸の職人 .


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tsuzura uma 葛籠馬 Tsuzura-horse
a packhorse of the Edo period, with a luggage wicker box hanging on each side and a person sitting on its back.


source : www.tobunken-archives.jp

from Sakata, Yamagata, shrine Hie Jinja, a tsuzura-uma at the festival
酒田 日枝神社 祭礼当日の葛籠馬

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. hina tsuzura 雛葛籠(ひなつづら) box for the hina dolls .
..... hina no hitsu 雛の櫃(ひなのひつ) / hina bako 雛箱(ひなばこ)
kigo for mid-spring
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In Teijo-zakki 貞丈雑記 (Teijo's memorandums) written by Sadatake Ise 伊勢貞丈 from 1763 to 1784, there is a description of a tsuzura and its material that had changed to bamboo.

In the case of a take tsuzura bamboo tsuzura, very thin bamboo stripes of the same width are woven in a matrix pattern and made into a square box shape.

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source : blog.livedoor.jp/luanasakamoto

. kamon 家紋 family crest, Familienwappen .


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Iwai Tsuzura Store - Tokyo
Tsuzura is a craftwork that was first made by craftsmen in Kanda, Tokyo, early in the Genroku era. Although there were more than 250 tsuzura stores all over Japan at the beginning of the Showa era, there are only two stores left in Tokyo today. One of them is "Iwai Tsuzura ten" in Chuo-ku. The popularity of tsuzura has been growing again recently, not just as a container for kimono or accessories but as a home decoration and a gift for overseas.



... we introduce maestro Ryoichi Iwai of "Iwai Tsuzura-ten," located on Amazake Yokocho Street, Nihonbashi, the only store that crafts and sells Tsuzura products in Chuo-ku today. The store was established at the end of the Edo era, and has been handing down the traditional technique of crafting "Tsuzura" for the past 200 years, since the 17th Century.

At our store, we put "washi” - Japanese rice paper made in Ogawa city in Saitama, over the bamboo basket weaved by a bamboo craftsman in Sado, Tateyama or Kyoto, to strengthen the basket. Then, we paint with a mixture of persimmon and tannin over the paper for base coating, which holds the lacquer. I inherited this special technique from my father but it took me seven to eight years to learn it. Although I strongly hope to hand down these traditional technique to the next generation, I strongly doubt my children will inherit it because in the division of labor, other craftsmen such as basket makers and lacquerware brush makers are also decreasing. The brushes sold at home centers are not thick enough for our work. Thinking from various angles, it is difficult to pass down all these techniques to next generations,...
- source : www.tokyochuo.net/issue


Its height was from the Meiji period to the Taisho period and there were many tsuzura craftsman in Nihonbashi (Chuo Ward, Tokyo), a famous town for kimono, and there was also a tsuzura traders' union.
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kyoo tsuzura 京葛籠 wicker box from Kyoto


by Watanabe shop 渡邉商店

made from moosoochiku 孟宗竹 Mosochiku bamboo grown in Kyoto, which is used to the differences of temperature in summer and winter.
The corners are softened with handmade washi Japanese paper paper from 宇和島 Uwajima, Ehime.
Their boxes are well liked by Kabuki actors and Sumo wrestlers.

渡邉商店は日本で唯一、葛籠製作の全工程を行う店舗です。本来葛籠づくりは、多くの伝統工芸の製作工程と同様に、竹を編む生地師、和紙を張る張り師、塗りを行う塗り師などそれぞれの職人による分業が一般的。しかし渡邉商店では、「こだわった物づくりをして、お客さんの希望に応えていきたい」と、竹選びからお客様の手元に届けるまでの全てを手掛ける、一貫製作にこだわっています。使用するのは、寒暖の差が激しい気候の中で育った、京都・洛西の孟宗竹。この竹から剥ぎ取った、厚さ1ミリの竹の薄皮を用い、強度に優れる四つ目編みで美しく編み込みます。角になる部分は緩やかな曲線に仕上げ、その上に張るのは宇和島産の手漉き和紙。この和紙も購入後、2~3年間乾燥させてから使うというこだわり方です。これら全ての工程において、一切の妥協をしないからこそ、着物を日常的に扱う歌舞伎界や相撲界からも一目置かれる名品が生まれるのです。
- source : www.shinise.ne.jp/receive - Watanabe

- different kinds of tsuzura made by Watanabe san


ageko 明荷(あけに)- for Sumo wrestlers

文楽・歌舞伎 - for Bunraku and Kabuki
道具入れ - for the tea ceremony
呉服入れ - for robes
文箱 - for letters and writing utensils

Look at photos of the production procsss and more :
- source : www.wanogakkou.com - tudura

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- ABC - List of wicker boxes from the Prefectures

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Tsuzura woven out of Tsuzurafuji in the possession of the Shoso-in Treasure Repository.
ツヅラフジで作られた葛籠は正倉院



onsho no hako 御書箱 (おんしょのはこ)box for writing utensils

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sekishitsu nuri no yanagibako 赤漆塗柳箱 (せきしつぬりのやなぎばこ)
box woven from the thin branches of a willow tree
painted with red laquer

These boxes were important to keep robes and washi paper dry and protect them from insects in times when chests, cabinets and closets were not widely used yet.
- source : www.wanogakkou.com - tudura -


. Shoosoo-In, Shōsōin 正倉院曝 Shoso-In Treasure House .

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. Omoi tsuzura and yokubari obasan / The heavy basket and the greedy old woman .

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. tsuzura つづら、tsuzurakazura 葛籠葛(つづらかずら)acebia vine .
tsuzurafuji 葛藤 (つづらふじ) Sabia vine
kigo for late summer

裏千家羅馬道場雛葛籠
urasenke rooma doojoo hina tsuzura

Urasenke
Roma training center
box for hina dolls


- source : www.mmjp.or.jp/aoi - 藍生 主宰句


. Urasenke 裏千家 and the Tea Ceremony .

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Hina Tsuzura - Haiku Collection 雛葛籠: 句集
by 千代 代々木 / 代々木千代 Yoyogi Chiyo


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小衾やつづらの中に寝る僧都
kobusuma ya tsuzura no naka ni neru soozu

this little quilt -
the high priest sleeps
in a wicker box

Tr. Gabi Greve


芋運ぶ僧都の猿やむら時雨
imo hakobu soozu no saru ya mura shigure

the abbot's monkey
hauls potatoes ...
steady winter rain

Tr. David Lanoue


. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .


soozu - sôzu is one rank of a Buddhist priest, often translated as "high priest", taking care of the nuns in a temple:

大僧都 / daisoojoo 大僧正
大僧都 daisoozu
権大僧都 gon no daisoozu
少僧都 shoosoozu
権少僧都 gon no shoosoozu

大律師 dairisshi

soogoo 僧綱(そうごう)rank of Buddhist priests
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椎の花つづらの中の指人形
shii no hana tsuzura no naka no yubi ningyoo

flowers of the Shii-oak
there are finger dolls
in the wicker box


Futamura Noriko 二村典子

. shii no hana 椎の花 (しいのはな) flowers of the Shii-oak .
kigo for mid-summer


. yubi ningyo 指人形 finger dolls .

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鬼の出る葛籠負うて摩耶詣
星野石雀

夏の月いらぬ葛籠は梁へあげ
養浩 - 芭蕉庵小文庫

蝦蟇・一つ目覗く葛籠(つづら)より
高澤良一 

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- a poet with the name of Tsuzura

すててこや銭湯のある町に住み
suteteko ya sento no aru machi ni sumi

my loose underpants -
I live in a town
with a public bath


Tsuzura Kensuke 葛籠堅助

. suteteko すててこ loose underpants for men .
kigo for summer

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