Reverberations of Taiga, Volume 1 (leaf 19) (mid- to late 1700s): Art, History and Details

Reverberations of Taiga, Volume 1 (leaf 19) (mid- to late 1700s) 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 Ikeno Taiga, whose style is reflected in these sketches of rocks, trees, and mountains.

Object facts

• Title: Reverberations of Taiga, Volume 1 (leaf 19)
• Date: mid- to late 1700s
• Creator attribution: Aoki Shukuya (Japanese, d. 1802)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Portfolio
• Technique: double-leaf from a pair of albums; 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: 1979.73.1.19

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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