墨竹扇面図|Bamboo and Rocks by a Stream

Takaku Aigai

1832 · Folding fan; ink on paper, wood ribs · Asian Art

Bending without breaking, bamboo embodies the Confucian value of righteousness. Its slender, supple stems were appreciated as calligraphic forms and were of perennial interest to Chinese and Japanese painters of the literati tradition. Aigai was a protégé of Tani Bunchō (1763–1840), a leading Nanga artist in Edo (now Tokyo). He became especially famous as a painter of bamboo.

Artist

Takaku Aigai

Date

1832

Medium

Folding fan; ink on paper, wood ribs

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975