Fishing in a Springtime Valley (1700s): Art, History and Details

Fishing in a Springtime Valley (1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Though Ike Taiga first made a living after his father's early death by selling paintings on fans, he found a place within Kyoto's literati community and became one of its leading figures. In this colorful work, a river flows down from a mountain village, passing through farms on its way to the fishing town nestled in trees and bamboo along the banks in the foreground. Two people set out in a boat on the calm water where the river expands.

Object facts

• Title: Fishing in a Springtime Valley
• Date: 1700s
• Creator attribution: Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
• Dimensions: Painting: 124 x 49.4 cm (48 13/16 x 19 7/16 in.); Mounted: 210 x 62.9 cm (82 11/16 x 24 3/4 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1961.47

Collection credit

Edward L. Whittemore Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Suzuki Susumu, Matsushita Hidemaro, and Yoshizawa Tadashi. Ike Taiga sakuhinshū 池大雅作品集. Tōkyō, 東京: Chūō Kōron 中央公論美術出版, 1960 [Shōwa 35].
• Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review 1961.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 9 (1961): 219–251.
• Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.

View the collection record

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