Nibutani Ita Ita

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This walnut Nibutani Ita is carved to look like a piece of spread-out fabric. Toru Kaizawa feels that copying the past masters is not enough to keep the tradition from fading away. His work, including solid wood carvings of living things such as insects and bears, as well as a realistic representation of cloth, entitled Jufu (wooden cloth), show his pursuit of a variety of new expressions in wood-carving.