Felice Fischer
 
Fischer, Felice
Fischer, Felice
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Description: Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush
The mid-eighteenth century in Japan was a time of political and social stability and economic prosperity. The Tokugawa family of military rulers (shoguns) was firmly ensconced in the new eastern capital of Edo as the de facto political power, while the emperor reigned as spiritual and cultural sovereign in the ancient imperial capital of Kyoto in western Japan. In order to keep a measure of...
PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.53-63
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00302.3
Description: Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush
These words composed by the priest Daiten commence the epitaph for the tombstone of the artist Ike Taiga, who died on the nineteenth day of the fourth lunar month of 1776. The tombstone itself was installed the following year at Taiga’s family temple, Jōkō-ji, in Kyoto. Daiten Kenjō (1719–1801), abbot of another Kyoto temple, Shōkoku-ji, had been Taiga’s...
PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.13-31
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00302.1
Description: Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00302
Ike Taiga (1723–1776) and his wife Tokuyama Gyokuran (1727–1784) were preeminent artists in eighteenth-century Japan. This landmark book—the only comprehensive survey available in English—focuses on the lives and times of these artists and accompanied the first-ever exhibition devoted to their work in the United States.

Considered by contemporaries to be an eccentric marvel, indifferent to worldly preoccupations, Taiga is best known as an exponent of the so-called Nanga school of Chinese literati painting. He was hugely prolific and experimental, working in an impressive range of styles, techniques, compositions, and subjects to produce over 1,000 calligraphies and paintings, and many large-scale fusuma (sliding doors) and screens. While not as well known as her husband, Gyokuran was a significant artist and a well-regarded poet of Japanese verse. Taiga wrote poetry in Chinese, and translated poems by both artists are featured prominently in this volume.
Print publication date May 2007 (out of print)
Print ISBN 9780300122183
EISBN 9780300263169
Illustrations 482
Print Status out of print
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Description: Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano
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PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art
Description: Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano
In 1867, the fifteen-year-old Mutsuhito ascended the Japanese throne as emperor, ushering in the reign period called “Meiji” (Enlightened Rule), which lasted from 1868 to 1912...
PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.61-67
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00263.007
Description: Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano
Kano Tan’yū (1602–1674) was born in Kyoto in the second year of the seventeenth century and like his European contemporary Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), he came to define the artistic Zeitgeist of his era...
PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.23-29
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00263.003
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Description: Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano
Exhibitions are the most ephemeral of phenomena. Yet the afterlife of one or two exhibitions seen at key moments can be lasting and incalculable—transfigurative, even...
PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art
Description: Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00263
The Kano lineage of painters—the most important in Japan—was established in the late 15th century by Kano Masanobu (1434–1530) and continued for more than 400 years, until the early 20th century. Originally limited to successive generations of the Kano family, it soon developed into a school of professional artists. Ink and Gold is the first and most comprehensive book published outside of Japan to address the Kano painters. This important volume focuses on the large-scale screens and sliding doors that were designed for the residences of powerful rulers, together with smaller works such as scrolls, albums, and fans. These works—for sites including shogunate residences, Zen temples, teahouses, and homes of wealthy merchants—demonstrate the range of styles that Kano artists employed to suit the tastes of their varied patrons. Essays by leading scholars address the wide range of Kano motifs and styles and also consider the particular influence of Kano Tan’yū (1602–1674). A compendium of Kano artists’ seals, a type of resource published here for the first time, provides an important reference, as does an appendix of images from the most significant album by Tan’yū.

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Print publication date March 2015 (out of print)
Print ISBN 9780300210491
EISBN 9780300262278
Illustrations 470
Print Status out of print