徳山玉瀾筆　牡丹に竹図|Peony and Bamboo

Ike (Tokuyama) Gyokuran

ca. 1768 · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

Tokuyama Gyokuran was introduced to the world of the literati early in life. Her mother and adopted mother were both noted poets in Kyoto and were close to the early nanga artist Yanagisawa Kien (1704–1758), a painting teacher to Ike Taiga, whom Gyokuran later married in the early 1750s. Although she began painting well before her marriage, Taiga’s influence is apparent here in the technique used to create the broad, trailing contour line of the rock and the pointed bamboo leaves. Based on what is known of her stylistic development, this work is dated to around 1768.

Artist

Ike (Tokuyama) Gyokuran

Date

ca. 1768

Medium

Hanging scroll; 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