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Gallery Text

Here Taiga uses his brush to express the emblematic characteristics of the scholar-gentleman, including resiliency and flexibility, symbolized here by the bamboo plant that bends but does not break in adverse conditions. Bamboo, the "ink gentleman," offered endless possibilities for expressive experimentation with ink tonality and brushwork. Taiga intentionally raised his brush to leave kinetic passages of un-inked paper as he formed the arched stalk of the wind-buffeted bamboo stem, set against a pastel blue ground suggestive of the muted hibernal light of a stormy winter day.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
TL42642.2
People
Ikeno Taiga 池大雅, Japanese (Kyoto 1723 - 1776)
Title
Bamboo on a Stormy Day
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
hanging scroll, painting
Date
after 1759
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340583

Location

Location
Level 2, Room 2600, East Asian Art, East Asian Painting and Decorative Arts
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions
painting proper: H. 129.5 × W. 46.7 cm (51 × 18 3/8 in.)
overall mounting, including roller ends and suspension cord: H. 217.2 × W. 68.9 cm (85 1/2 × 27 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • signature: 霞樵 [Kashō]
  • seal: upper; square, intaglio: 池無名印 [Ike Mumei in]
  • seal: lower; square, intaglio: 弎岳道者 [Sangaku Dōja]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
Object Number
TL42642.2
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection, exh. cat., Yomiuri Shinbunsha (Tokyo, 2013), p. 63, cat. 19
  • Musée Cernuschi, Le Japon au fil des saisons: Collection Robert et Betsy Feinberg, exh. cat., Paris-Musées (Paris, 2014), pp. 104-105
  • Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 221-222, cat. 223

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

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