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Totoki Baigai

1800 · Two albums, each with ten leaves; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

Considered today one of Japan’s national treasures, the album Ten Conveniences and Ten Pleasures (1771) was a collaboration between the renowned painters Ike no Taiga (1723–1776) and Yosa Buson (1716–1784). It visualized an idyllic lifestyle set in a reclusive garden, as described by Li Yu (1611–1680), a Chinese novelist who also published a famous painting manual. This sophisticated copy of the album was made by Totoki Baigai, a scholar-painter and onetime student of Taiga.

Artist

Totoki Baigai

Date

1800

Medium

Two albums, each with ten leaves; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015