The Burke Collection
Poem from Man’yōshū (万葉集)
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534-1

Artist

Ike Taiga

(池大雅; 1723–1776)

Catalogue information

Edo period

Formerly pasted on a two-panel folding screen, remounted as hanging scroll; ink on paper

30.7 x 45.2 cm (12 1/8 x 17 3/4 in.)

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Ex Coll.: Mizuta Chikuho

Literature

Tanaka Ichimatsu et al. 1960, no. 681
Tanaka Ichimatsu, Yamanaka Rankei, and Kosugi Hōan [Tanaka Ichimatsu et al.]
1960
[Editors]. Ike Taiga sakuhinshū (The works of Ike Taiga). 2 vols. Tokyo: Chūōkōron Bijutsu Shuppan.

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;
Fischer 2007, no. 91.
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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Additional details

D534-1
on back
D534-1

Text

For my love I want a jewel. / Foaming waves, / bring me the pearls / of the open sea!

[on back] Ike Mumei [illegible]