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TitleCalligraphic couplet

Creator nameIke no Taiga

Creator nationality/cultureJapanese

Creator roleCalligrapher

Creation dateUnknown

Object typeCalligraphy

MaterialsInk on mica paper; fan

LocationPrivate collection

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsFan painting, JapaneseCalligraphy, Japanese--History--Edo period, 1600-1868Chinese poetry--Tang dynasty, 618-907

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Taiga and Chinese Poetry (Kanshi)

Jonathan Chaves

Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush

From the dawn of recorded Japanese literature, the Chinese language was used by Japanese writers and scholars to write prose accounts of history, as well as poetry. That Japanese writers used a language other than their own ought not to seem strange to us, when we recall that for centuries a “foreign” language, Latin, was the medium of choice for writers in France, England, Germany,...

Author

Jonathan Chaves

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Related print edition pages: pp.105-117

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00302.7

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22293&redirecttoanchor=75876

Chapter subject tags:Ike, Taiga, 1723-1776Kanshi (Japanese poetry)Chinese poetryLandscape painting, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868Calligraphy, Japanese--History--Edo period, 1600-1868

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