Postscript from “Reverberations of Taiga” (1910): Art, History and Details

Postscript from “Reverberations of Taiga” (1910) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Murata Kōkoku (Japanese, 1831-1912).

The work and its context

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

Kusakabe Meikaku, one of the three most famous Japanese calligraphers of his time, provided a title leaf, CMA 1979.73.1.1, for a pair of albums of paintings after Ike Taiga (池大雅) (1723–1776) by his student Aoki Shukuya (青木夙夜) (died 1802). Murata Kōkoku, a well-traveled painter with an extensive network of colleagues in China and Japan, wrote a postscript for the albums in which he explained that the paintings are faithful copies after Taiga’s images of rocks, mountains, residences, and so forth. These two artists respectfully documented Shukuya’s work more than 100 years after his death.

Object facts

• Title: Postscript from “Reverberations of Taiga”
• Date: 1910
• Creator attribution: Murata Kōkoku (Japanese, 1831-1912)
• Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
• Type: Portfolio
• Technique: double-leaf from a pair of albums; ink on silk
• Dimensions: Album, closed: 28.3 x 33 cm (11 1/8 x 13 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1979.73.2.36

Collection credit

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1979.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (March 1980): 58–99.
• Graham, Patricia J. "Lifestyles of Scholar-Painters in Edo Japan." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 7 (September 1990): 262–283.

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