Reverberations of Taiga (mid-1700s–1802): Art, History and Details

Reverberations of Taiga (mid-1700s–1802) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Aoki Shukuya (Japanese, d. 1802).

The work and its context

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

Traditionally, young painters in Japan began their studies with an established master painter. The master's compositions invariably became models that the apprentice copied to learn various ink and brush techniques. Shukuya was a pupil of the famous Kyoto artist Ike Taiga, whose style is reflected in these sketches of rocks, trees, and mountains.

Object facts

• Title: Reverberations of Taiga
• Date: mid-1700s–1802
• Creator attribution: Aoki Shukuya (Japanese, d. 1802)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Portfolio
• Technique: set of two albums of 36 double-leaves each; ink, or ink and light color on paper
• Dimensions: Album, closed: 28.3 x 33 cm (11 1/8 x 13 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1979.73

A detail from the museum

Aoki Shukuya was a top student of painter Ike Taiga (1723–1776) and took responsibility for Taiga’s stylistic legacy.

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.

View the collection record

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