Ike Taiga (1723-1776)

“Playing the Ch’in beneath Pines; Writing on Stone Cliff”

Pair of hanging scrolls, ink and color on paper
Each 135 x 57 cm. (53 1/8 x 22 in.)

Inscriptions:
right scroll: “The brush tip manifests orchids and brings forth the grass.”
left scroll: “From the strings fragrant breezes enter the garden pines. Kashō.”

Artist’s seals:
Zenshin Sōma Houkyūkō (“In a Former Life I was the Horse Connoisseur Fang Chiu-kao”); Ike Mumei In; Kashō (“Woodcutter in Haze”); Sonsei (“In Accord with Life”); Sangaku Dōja (“Taoist of the Three Peaks [of Fuji, Tateyama, and Hakusan]”)

Box inscription:
“A pair of works painted and inscribed by Ike Kashō: ‘Inscribing Poetry on the Stone Cliff’ and ‘Playing the Ch’in beneath Pines.’ Written by Murata Kōkoku (1831-1912) at age seventy-eight (i.e. in 1908).”

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