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Fischer, Felice; Kinoshita, Kyoko

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Note to the Reader

Felice Fischer, Kyoko Kinoshita

Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush

Note to the Reader

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Felice Fischer, Kyoko Kinoshita

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22286

Note to the Reader

All works are by Taiga unless otherwise noted.

Pairs or multiple-image works are presented in the Japanese sequence, reading from right to left.

Cyclical or reign dates inscribed on works of art and in translated texts have been converted to the Gregorian calendar year. Numbered months refer to the lunar calendar. For example, Meiwa kōshin aki shichigatsu is converted to “autumn, seventh month, 1764.” All dates obtained from the works of art are preceded in the captions by the words “dated to”; all other dates are given as the year alone.

Measurements are given in inches and centimeters, with height preceding width. For hanging scrolls, measurements are of the image. For other types of objects, measurements are of the entire object (e.g., screen) unless otherwise indicated.

Translations of the poems in Chinese are by Jonathan Chaves. Translations of the poems in Japanese are by Hans Thomsen unless otherwise noted. The initial reading of Gyokuran’s Japanese poems was done by Unno Keisuke.

Numbers preceded by “ss” (e.g., SS45) refer to numbers assigned in the catalogue of Taiga’s collected works: Tanaka Ichimatsu et al., Ike Taiga sakuhin shū (Ike Taiga’s Collected Works), ed. Kurimoto Kazuo (Tokyo: Chūō Kōron, 1960). The Ike[-no] Taiga gafu is the original five-volume compilation of Taiga’s works, done in 1957–59. The compilers/editorial committee were Kosugi Hōan, Tanaka Ichimatsu, and Yamanaka Rankei, with Suzuki Susumu, Matsushita Hidemarō, and Yoshizawa Chū. In 1970 the five volumes were reissued as a two-volume compact set, the sakuhin shū, by the same group, Chūō Kōron was the publisher for both.

Japanese names are given surname first unless the author prefers Western name order. Artists and writers are referred to by their most commonly used sobriquet.

Ages are calculated according to Western reckoning (e.g., Taiga was five years old in 1728, not six as in Japanese reckoning).

ABBREVIATIONS

C.	Chinese
J.	Japanese
K.	Korean
SKT.	Sanskrit

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS

AH	Asaka Hiroshi, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art
JC	Jonathan Chaves, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
FF	Felice Fischer, Philadelphia Museum of Art
KK	Kyoko Kinoshita, Philadelphia Museum of Art
MN	Maruyama Naokazu, Tokyo National Museum
SO	Sadako Ohki, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
SH	Shimatani Hiroyuki, Tokyo National Museum
HT	Hans Thomsen, University of Chicago
UK	Unno Keisuke, Osaka University
YT	Yumino Takayuki, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art

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BOOKIke Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush

Felice Fischer, Kyoko Kinoshita

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00302

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22282

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.

Author

Felice Fischer, Kyoko Kinoshita

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Print publication date May 2007 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300122183

EISBN 9780300263169

Illustrations 482

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