A basket’s outline and its weave name answer different questions. Beppu’s official bamboo-craft introduction describes henso, the assembly of flat bamboo strips into a form, and distinguishes the designated craft from the wider range of bamboo work made in the area.
Technique and structure
The introduction says Beppu bamboo craft is shaped by weaving and combining flat strips. Eight weave techniques are specified for the nationally designated traditional craft, and their combinations allow more than 200 kinds of weave. Names such as yotsume, mutsume and ajiro therefore describe a way of constructing the interlaced material rather than, by themselves, a bag, tray or food-use specification. The same account explicitly recognises work continuing the tradition that falls outside the designated craft’s definition.
Read the designation at its own scale
The site dates Beppu bamboo craft’s traditional-craft designation to 1979. It explains the definition through traditional strip-making and weaving methods, alongside other designation conditions. That is more specific than assuming every bamboo object associated with Beppu carries the same designation.
For international readers
Keep the maker, weave, shape and intended use together when reading a listing. The general craft description supplies no individual product’s load rating, food-contact treatment, washing method or overseas-delivery conditions.
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日本語
別府竹細工：編み方の名前と製品の形を区別する
別府竹細工の公式紹介は、平らなひごを編み・組んで形にする編組を特徴とし、指定された8つの技法とその組み合わせによる200種類以上の編み方を説明します。四つ目、六つ目、網代などは、かごの最終的な形や用途そのものの名前ではありません。1979年の伝統的工芸品指定と、より広い竹工芸の活動範囲も区別して読みます。