Artist: Ike no Taiga, Japanese, 1723–1776, Moonlight Bamboo, ca. 1758–60, Six-panel folding screen: ink on paper, without mounting: 60 15/16 × 141 1/8 in. ( × cm), Ike Taiga was arguably the most celebrated literati artist in eighteenth-century Japan. In this painting, Taiga’s gigantic bamboo trunks, embellished with clusters of leaves rustling in a light breeze, are formed in superb ink tonalities. Taiga’s poem reads, Playing the koto [zither] in a bamboo grove, the moon came from a thousand miles away (to shine on me).

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