An illustrated 1911 magazine article on Japanese ornamental basketry, with a long quotation from Prof. Jiro Harada on bamboo baskets in Japan. It covers charcoal, flower, fruit, egg and lunch baskets, handbags and tobacco pouches, along with materials (bamboo, rattan, vine, willow), regional makers, and structural methods. The author compares basketry with weaving, argues for developing basket-making as an art craft in England, and links basket interlacing to Celtic and Norse ornament. Thirty figures show baskets from Japan, Burma and Formosa, including photographs of basket-weavers and sellers.