Lot 1008: Ike Taiga (1723-1776)

Ike Taiga (1723-1776)
Calligraphy book of Tang Poetry known as "Suiryujo"
Signed on page 151 Mumyo; sealed Zenshin Soma Ho Kyuko and Kasho
Folding album in accordion style of 180 pages with 36 stanzas of 5-character-line couplets and colophons; ink on paper, with brocade covers with title slip Suiryujo (Flowing water album)
10 5/8 x 4¾in. (27 x 12cm.) each page, total length 855 1/8in. (2,172cm.)

Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush," 2007.5.1-7.22

Tokyo National Museum, "Karayo no sho" (Calligraphy in Chinese style), 2006.7.11-8.6

Felice Fischer with Kyoko Kinoshita, Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2007), no. 205.

Maruyama Naokazu, "Suiryu-jo by Ike Taiga and Compilation of Its Colophons," Museum 606 (Feb. 2007): 23-61.

Kawai Hiroshi, "Ike Taiga no sho: Shinseki-bon Suiryu-jo sono 1," NHK Gakuen kiyo 28 (2005): 1-37.

Tokuyama Gyokuran (1727/28-1784)
Yuzaki Takuho, Kyoto

Ike Taiga (1723-1776)
Calligraphy book of Tang Poetry known as "Suiryujo"
Signed on page 151 Mumyo; sealed Zenshin Soma Ho Kyuko and Kasho
Folding album in accordion style of 180 pages with 36 stanzas of 5-character-line couplets and colophons; ink on paper, with brocade covers with title slip Suiryujo (Flowing water album)
10 5/8 x 4¾in. (27 x 12cm.) each page, total length 855 1/8in. (2,172cm.)