Bamboo and Rocks by a Stream 1832 Takaku Aigai Japanese Bending without breaking, bamboo embodies the Confucian value of righteousness. Its slender, supple stems were appreciated as calligraphic forms and were of perennial interest to Chinese and Japanese painters of the literati tradition. Aigai was a protégé of Tani Bunchō (1763–1840), a leading Nanga artist in Edo (now Tokyo). He became especially famous as a painter of Bamboo and Rocks by a Stream 45332

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