Probably painted by Ike Taiga while he was in his thirties, this scroll displays an experimental technique that Taiga used to create dual ink tones within a single brushstroke. These "broken traces" of ink allow the underlying paper to show through, particularly in the graceful curve of the bamboo trunk. Like the Chinese literati recluses who rebelled against their government, the Japanese literati (Nanga) artists, including Taiga, rebelled against traditional styles of painting in favor of new techniques. The caption on the hanging scroll reads, "Pure wind, high mind." Known traditionally as a symbol of a moral upstanding person, bamboo is used here to express the freedom that eighteenth-century Nanga artists enjoyed.