The Burke Collection
Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion (蘭亭曲水); Autumn Festival (秋祭)
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323-combined
323-1
323-2

Artist

Ike Taiga

(池大雅; 1723–1776)

Catalogue information

Edo period, ca. 1763

Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and light color on paper

Each screen 159.5 x 354.6 cm (62 3/4 in. x 11 ft. 7 5/8 in.)

Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Ex Coll.: Kuribayashi Shigeru, Tokyo

Literature

Tanaka Ichimatsu 1957, pp. 91–96
Tanaka Ichimatsu
1957
“Ike Taiga hitsu Rantei kyokusui, Gako shajitsu zu byōbu” (“Rantei kyokusui” and “Gako shajitsu,” by Taiga Ike). Kokka, no. 780 (March): 89–97.

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Tanaka Ichimatsu et al. 1957–59, nos. 241-1, 241-2
Tanaka Ichimatsu, Yamanaka Rankei, and Kosugi Hōan [Tanaka Ichimatsu et al.]
1957–59
[Editors]. Ike Taiga sakuhin gafu (The works of Ike Taiga). 5 vols. Tokyo: Chūōkōron Bijutsu Shuppan.

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Cahill 1972, no. 10 (Gathering)
Cahill, James
1972
Scholar Painters of Japan: The Nanga School. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society.

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Murase 1975, no. 70
Murase, Miyeko
1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Suzuki Susumu 1975, no. 10
Suzuki Susumu
1975
Ike Taiga. Nihon no bijutsu (Arts of Japan), 114. Tokyo: Shibundō.

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Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 50 (Gathering)
Tokyo National Museum
1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.

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Yoshizawa Chū 1986, nos. 29, 30
Yoshizawa Chū
1986
“Onaji zu no aru Ike Taiga hitsu Rantei kyokusui zu byōbu ni tsuite” (The screen of the Lan-ting Gathering, by Ikeno Taiga, and its duplicate). Kokka, no. 1096: 33–35.

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Murase 1990, no. 15
Murase, Miyeko
1990
Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting: The American Collections. New York: George Braziller.

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Avitabile 1990, no. 89 (Gathering)
Avitabile, Gunhild
1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

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Guth 1996, figs. 43, 44 (Gathering)
Guth, Christine
1996
Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City, 1615–1868. Perspectives. New York: Harry N. Abrams.

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Murase 2000, no. 159
Murase, Miyeko
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 109
Tsuji Nobuo et al.
2005
Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.

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Fischer 2007, p. 446, no. 156
Fischer, Felice
2007
With Kyoko Kinoshita. Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Volk 2010, p. 183, fig. 80 (Gathering).
Volk, Alicia
2010
In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugorō and Japanese Modern Art. The Phillips Book Prize Series, 1. Berkeley: University of California Press; Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection.

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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 323 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

D323-1
D323-1
D323-2

Text

[on left screen] At the foot of Mount Ohu, the rice and millet grow fat; / pigs are in their pens, and chickens in their coops. / The door to the house has been left ajar. / The Autumn Festival is over, and in the evening / mulberry leaves cast long shadows. / To every household, tipsy men return, holding each other up.

Signatures

[on right screen] Kyūka Sanshō painted

[on left screen] Kyūka Sanshō painted the spirit

Seals

[on right screen] Kashō; Ike Mumei in

[on left screen] Ike Mumei in; A Clerk Tending the Jade Emperor’s Incense Table