Night Mooring at Maple Bridge (mid- to late 1700s): Art, History and Details

Night Mooring at Maple Bridge (mid- to late 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:

In the upper left corner of his painting, Ike Taiga has inscribed a poem by the Chinese poet Zhang Ji (張繼) (733?–779). It reads as follows: The moon has set and crows caw as frost fills the sky. A riverside maple and fishing lights confront my uneasy sleep. Beyond the walls of Gusu lies Hanshan Temple. Its midnight bell reaches my traveler’s boat. The traveler’s boat appears through dense foliage in the foreground. A maple and two fishing boats are in the middle ground. In the distance is Hanshan Temple.

Object facts

• Title: Night Mooring at Maple Bridge
• Date: mid- to late 1700s
• Creator attribution: Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
• Dimensions: Mounted: 210.1 x 53 cm (82 11/16 x 20 7/8 in.); Painting only: 134.9 x 38.4 cm (53 1/8 x 15 1/8 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1992.386

Collection credit

Bequest of Maud Eells Corning

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