Artist
Ike Taiga
(池大雅; 1723–1776)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 1733
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
26.8 x 33.3 cm (10 1/2 x 13 1/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Okamoto Kōhei, Kanagawa Prefecture; Mizuta Chikuho
Literature
Kyoto National Museum 1933, pl. 79
; 1933
Ike Taiga iboku tenrankai mokuroku (Catalogue of the exhibition of the work of Ike Taiga). Exh. cat. Kyoto: Kyoto National Museum.
Hitomi Shōka 1940, p. 3
; 1940
“Ike Taiga hyōden” (The life of Ike Taiga). Nanga kanshō 9 (September): 2–5.
Tanaka Ichimatsu et al. 1957–59, no. 1
; 1957–59
[Editors]. Ike Taiga sakuhin gafu (The works of Ike Taiga). 5 vols. Tokyo: Chūōkōron Bijutsu Shuppan.
Matsushita Hidemaro 1970, fig. 8
; Murase 1975, no. 68
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Shimizu and Rosenfield 1984, no. 116
; 1984
Masters of Japanese Calligraphy, 8th–19th Century. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society Galleries and Japan House Gallery.
Fischer 2007, no. 1.
2007
With Kyoko Kinoshita. Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 532 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
by Shisei
[Poem 24, by Minamoto Muneyuki (d. 939)] Now that spring has come / even the unchanging pine is dressed / in fresh new foliage that is / dyed a brighter shade of green
.
[Poem 53, by Ariwara Narihira (825–880)] If this world had never / known the ephemeral charms of cherry blossoms / then our hearts in spring might match / nature’s deep tranquility.
Signature
Written by Shisei at age 11
Seal
Ikeno Shisei