Mount Fuji, overlooking from Tago no Ura Bay Artist: Ike no Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776)

ca. 1760s

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Hanging scroll: ink and light color on paper, ivory rollers

Dimensions

without mounting: 50 × 22 1/16 in. (127 × 56 cm)
with mounting: 81 11/16 × 27 5/16 in. (207.5 × 69.4 cm)
with rollers: 29 1/2 in. (75 cm)

Credit Line

Purchased with the Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund, and Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund

Accession Number

2006.131.8a-d

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Yanagi Shigehiko, Kyoto through February 19, 2001 (this date appears on the release paper signed by the director of the Kyoto National Museum proving that this is not a nationally designated work of art; this is the first of the three works on the list); Leighton R. Longhi, New York; purchased in 2006 by the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Taiga Ikeno, Bunjinga suihen, 12 (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1974), 144, fig. 56
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

landscapes (representations)

Subject

clouds mountains

Signed

"Mumei" followed by a seal "Ike Mumei in" (Lower left bottom)

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