Reverberations of Taiga, Volume 1 (leaf 23)
1704
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1704
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Reverberations of Taiga, Volume 1 (leaf 23) is a 1704 by Aoki Shukuya, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a small, misty mountain scene—soft gray ink on paper, with a few dark strokes for trees and a winding path. This painting copies a lost work by Ike Taiga, Shukuya’s teacher. The original was part of an album Taiga made for his wife. Later, Shukuya turned it into a print, keeping the quiet mood alive. To see more of this quiet style, look up japan, edo period (1615–1868).
Aoki Shukuya was a top student of painter Ike Taiga and took responsibility for Taiga’s stylistic legacy. A painting album by Taiga, part of which survives today in Kyoto in hanging scroll format, served as the source for this painting by Shukuya and the matching designs from a set of wood-block–printed volumes published in 1804. The postscript to the books, written and carved by the scholar Minagawa Kien (皆川淇園) (1735–1807), explains that Taiga produced the original album for his wife and fellow painter Tokuyama Gyokuran (徳山玉瀾) (1727/28–1784). Complex rock formations are accompanied by the…
Traditionally, young painters in Japan began their studies with an established master painter. The master's compositions invariably became models that the apprentice copied to learn various ink and brush techniques.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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