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Details
- Alternative title
- Album of paintings by Taigadô
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Date
- 1804
- Media categories
- Print , Book
- Materials used
- folded book: 32 leaves, 24 prints, colour woodcut
- Dimensions
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29.8 x 19.1 cm leaf; 29.8 x 19.2 x 1.8 cm closed book; 29.8 x 38.3 cm open book
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a - Untitled (a tree without leaves), 24 x 8 cm, image; verso leaf e
b - Untitled (a tree with small leaves), 18 x 15.5 cm, image; leaf f
c - Untitled (a tree), 27 x 20 cm, image; verso leaf f and leaf g
d - Untitled (trees), 26.5 x 37 cm, image; verso leaf g and leaf h
e - Untitled (trees), 26 x 37 cm, image; verso leaf h and leaf i
f - Untitled (trees), 21 x 36 cm, image; verso leaf i and leaf j
g - Untitled (a pine tree), 26 x 37.9 cm, image; verso leaf j and leaf k
h - Untitled (rocks), 23 x 31 cm, image; verso leaf k and leaf l
i - Untitled (rocks), 13 x 34 cm, image; verso leaf l and leaf m
j - Untitled (mountains), 25 x 36.2 cm, image; verso leaf m and leaf n
k - Untitled (mountains), 26.5 x 38.1 cm, image; verso leaf n and leaf o
l - Untitled (mountains), 27.5 x 34.8 cm, image; verso leaf o and leaf p
m - Untitled (mountains), 26.5 x 37.5 cm, image; verso leaf p and leaf q
n - Untitled (mountains), 26.5 x 35 cm, image; verso leaf q and leaf r
o - Untitled (mountains and three trees), 27.2 x 38 cm, image; verso leaf r and leaf s
p - Untitled (figures), 21 x 37.5 cm, image; verso leaf s and leaf t
q - Untitled (figures), 17 x 30.5 cm, image; verso leaf t and leaf u
r - Untitled (figures), 19 x 31.7 cm, image; verso leaf u and leaf v
s - Untitled (figures playing instruments in a garden), 27 x 38.1 cm, image; verso leaf v and leaf w
t - Untitled (figures fishing on boats), 20.5 x 38.1 cm, image; verso leaf w and leaf x
u - Untitled (boats on the river), 28 x 38.1 cm, image; verso leaf x and leaf y
v - Untitled (houses by water), 26.6 x 35.5 cm, image; verso leaf y and leaf z
w - Untitled (view of city from mountain), 25 x 36 cm, image; verso leaf z and leaf aa
x - Untitled (a cave halfway up the mountain), 27.5 x 36.5 cm, image; verso leaf aa and leaf bb
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1983
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 269.1983.a-ff
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Ike-no Taiga
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About
Taiga came from a commoner's family and lost his father when he was four. From an early age he showed talent in Chinese studies at Manpukuji temple, built in 1669 as the main temple of the Chinese Obaku sect of Zen Buddhism and a mecca for Chinese studies throughout the Edo period. Japanese artists developed the Chinese literati style largely by studying painting and woodblock-printed books such as the famous 'Mustard seed garden manual of painting', originally published in China (1679/1707) and brought to Japan in the following decades. Following this example, Taiga published his own manual, from which these prints are taken, and inspired a following of many artists.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.238.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Art of the brush, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Sep 1995–12 Nov 1995
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Christie's New York, Christie's New York: Japanese and Korean Art, New York, 19 Sep 2000, 93 (illus.). cat. no. 146
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Jackie Menzies, Art of the Brush - Chinese & Japanese painting calligraphy, Sydney, 1995, 23.
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Edo Painting Schools', Sydney, 2003, 238 (colour illus.). The two images shown are: above - verso leaf m and leaf n; below - verso leaf q and leaf r
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