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TitleIke Taiga's handprint

Creator nameIke no Taiga

Creator nationality/cultureJapanese

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1804

Object typePrint

MaterialsWoodblock print

LocationIke Taiga Art Museum Collection of Kyoto Prefecture

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsCalligraphy, Japanese--History--Edo period, 1600-1868HaikuPrints, Japanese

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Ike Taiga, A Life in Art

Felice Fischer

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...

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Felice Fischer

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Related print edition pages: pp.13-31

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00302.1

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22287&redirecttoanchor=75822

Chapter subject tags:Ike, Taiga, 1723-1776NangaArtists--Japan--BiographyLandscape painting, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868Calligraphy, Japanese--History--Edo period, 1600-1868

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