Reverberations of Taiga, Volume 2 (leaf 25)
1704
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1704
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Reverberations of Taiga, Volume 2 (leaf 25) is a 1704 by Aoki Shukuya, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a single leaf from an album: ink on paper, a jagged mountain ridge half-hidden in mist. This isn’t just a copy. Aoki Shukuya was the star pupil of Ike Taiga, and he painted this after Taiga’s own sketchbook. The original was a private gift for Taiga’s wife—so the mountain you’re looking at once hung in their home. To see the sketchbook that started it all, 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). The final design in the first volume of the books…
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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