Artworks

True View of Mount Asama

Artwork · Ike no Taiga · c. 1760 · kakemono

The first painting identified as a shinkeizu: on the evidence of style Ike no Taiga had seen Western copperplate etchings, and he used layered perspective, etching-like lines and light washes for what claims to be the true appearance of the mountain. But, as Melinda Takeuchi has shown, it combines two views — the lower right from a separate drawing, the horizon a reworked sketch of Fuji — and its poem, dedicated to Master Gion, makes it an expression of the painter’s character. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 330–331, fig. 385. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.