The Burke Collection
Ike Taiga gafu (Paintings of Ike Taiga / 池大雅画譜); I Fukyū gafu (Paintings of Yi Fujiu / 伊孚九画譜)
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“After Taiga’s Discussion under a Pine Tree about the Vicissitudes of Time,” from Ike Taiga gafu
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Artist

Nakagawa Tenju

(中川天寿; d. 1795)

Catalogue information

Edo period, 1803

Two books; illustrations in ink on paper

Each book approx. 26.7 x 18.3 cm (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)

Postscript, in I Fukyū gafu: “Kan Tenju’s reproductions in reduced scale; Spring 1803”

Gift from James Cahill, 1968

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