In this book accompanying the exhibition "Masters of Bamboo: Japanese Baskets and Sculpture from the Cotsen Collection", exhibition curator Melissa Rinne, in consultation with bamboo specialist Koichiro Okada. She traces the network of master-disciple influences that constitute the major lineages-or lines of artistic transmission-in bamboo art, from nineteenth-century artists through those active today. These lineages have never before been described in a systematic way, and they provide a means of comprehending Japanese bamboo work from a global perspective.