East Asian Art Enjoying the Moon in a Riverside Cottage Made in JapanEdo Period (1615-1868), 1765 Ike Taiga, Japanese, 1723 - 1776 Ink on paper; mounted as a hanging scroll Currently not on view 1968-8-1 Purchased with the Thomas Skelton Harrison Fund, 1968 |
LabelTaiga used dark ink in this sketch of two men in a cottage. A lone pine reaches upward into the cloudless expanse of the sky. The moon is not visible, unless the round seal stamped on the upper left is Taiga's playful reference to it. The verse he chose is by the famed Chinese writer Bo Juyi (772-846):A Friend Visits at Night |
