Artworks

First Visit to the Red Cliffs

Artwork · Ike no Taiga · 1749 · byōbu

One of a pair of screens by Ike no Taiga (1723–1776), a calligraphy prodigy who sold decorated fans in a shop with his mother and studied with Yanagisawa Kien: the composition and brushwork recall the fifteenth-century landscapes of Minchō and Shūbun. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 329–330, fig. 384. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.