Asian Art
Bamboo and Rocks in Clearing Skies
Painting
Details
- Author / creator
- Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- mid-1700s
- Dimensions summary
- Image: 163.2 × 182.6 cm
- Maker or workshop
- Ike Taiga
- Period / style
- Edo period
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
The title written on this screen corresponds to one on a design in Taiga’s Brush Methods (大雅堂画法). The concept conveyed is one of scenery and spirit refreshed by precipitation. In the screen, a rain-filled stream rushes from the mountains into a river. A village is nestled amid giant bamboo in the distance. A platform-like flat rock in the foreground invites us to step into the scene.
Materials and technique
Two-panel folding screen; ink on paper
Signature and marks
signed, titled, and sealed by the artist on the top of the left panel. Set of two seals appears once on each panel: after the signature on the left panel and lower left on the right panel. The first of the two square seals reads "ike no mumei," the second reads "sangaku doja."
