Artist
Ike Taiga
(池大雅; 1723–1776)
Catalogue information
Edo period
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
23.6 x 20.6 cm (9 1/4 x 8 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
Literature
Tanaka Ichimatsu et al. 1960, no. 796.
1960
[Editors]. Ike Taiga sakuhinshū (The works of Ike Taiga). 2 vols. Tokyo: Chūōkōron Bijutsu Shuppan.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 535 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
[My message is] as follows: Dear Old Yo Shōemon Sensei: / I respectfully reviewed your letter. I will send you the painting that you have asked for in a day or two. I am relieved to learn you were able to obtain the rare mirror. I waited for your visit the day before yesterday. / Yours truly, Mumei