Artist
Ike Taiga
(池大雅; 1723–1776)
Catalogue information
TK
One handscroll; ink on paper
33.7 x 172.3 cm (13 1/4 x 67 7/8 in.)
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 539 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
[top]
Text
Darkness over the imperial palace by the Gusui
[Ch. Yu River] dissolves by itself
.
Signature
Kashōsha
Seals
[upper right] Having traveled one thousand miles, I have not yet read ten thousand books
; Kashō
; Taigadō
; [upper left] Chikkyo deshi
; [lower left] Sessō
[bottom]
Text
The peak near the monastery on Sūgaku
[Ch. Mount Song] clears up
.
Signature
Kashōsha
Seals
[upper right] Having traveled one thousand miles, I have not yet read ten thousand books
; Kashō
; Taigadō
; [upper left] Chikkyo deshi
; [lower left] illegible
Supplementary Transcriptions
Text
虞水北闕聽陰散。
Signature
霞樵者
Seals
乃行千里道未讀萬卷書（白文長方印）(intaglio, rectangle)
霞樵（白文方印）(intaglio, square)
大雅堂（朱文方印）(relief, square)
竹居弟子（朱文葫蘆形印） (relief, gourd shape)
雪窗（朱文長方印）(relief, rectangle)
Text
嵩丘蘭若一峰晴。1
Signature
霞樵者
Seals
乃行千里道未讀萬卷書（白文長方印）(intaglio, rectangle)
霞樵（白文方印）(intaglio, square)
大雅堂（朱文方印）(relief, square)
雪窗（朱文長方印）(relief, rectangle)
竹居弟子（朱文葫蘆形印） (relief, gourd shape)
□□伊平（白文方印）(intaglio, square)
Notes
1. This line is taken from Wang Wei’s (王維, 701-761) poem “Visiting Chan Master Chengru and Lay Practitioner Xiao in a Monastery on Mount Song” (過乘如禪師蕭居士嵩丘蘭若). Mount Song, in Henan Province, is the middle Sacred Mountain of China.