|   The technique wherby bamboo strips are woven into 
shapes and coated with lacquer. Also called kagoji âÄ’n (basket base) when 
a basket is made with peeled bamboo or vines and lacquered. Made in Han period 
China and late Joumon period Japan, there are examples in the Shousouin ³‘q‰@. It 
is still made in Thailand and Burma and, in modern Japan, in Takamatsu ‚¼, Kurume 
‹v—¯•Ä and Beppu •Ê•{.  |