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Artwork · Ike Gyokuran · handscroll · Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

By Ike Gyokuran (1727–1784), Taiga’s wife and collaborator, from a family of women poets and a student of Yanagisawa Kien — the first known female bunjinga artist: mountain scenery piled up in time-honoured fashion, but with an exquisite sense of placement leading the eye across the composition. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 332–333, fig. 387. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.