Thirty-Six Immortal Poets, mid 19th century
Ikeda Kosonexpand_more
Ink and color on silkexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.89
Not on Viewexpand_more
The throng of figures on this two-panel screen is identifiable as the so-called “Thirty-Six Immortal Poets,” recognized as paragons of classical Japanese poetry already in the tenth century. The left panel features eighteen poets, while the right features only seventeen. A thirty-sixth figure, Saigū no Nyōgo—one of five female poets in the group—is hidden behind a curtain at upper right. Ikeda Koson’s composition is based on a seventeenth century original by Ōgata Kōrin, a prominent artist of the Rinpa school of Japanese painting, highlighted in this exhibition in Gallery 219.
Details
- Title
- Thirty-Six Immortal Poets
- Artist Life
- 1802 - 1867
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.89
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 201
- Curator Approved
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