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Many phenomenal artists were active during Jakuchū’s lifetime in the
eighteenth century. This exhibition presents works by Yosa Buson (1716–1783), Ike Taiga
(1723–1776), Soga Shōhaku (1730–1781), Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–1795), and Katsu
Jagyoku (1735–1780). |
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9 Tiger, Sekihō-ji Temple, Kyoto |
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 In his later years, Jakuchū lived with his daughter
near Sekihō-ji Temple in Fukakusa, Kyoto, and assumed the pseudonym
“Beitoō (‘old man of one bushel of rice’),” because he is said to have
received a bushel of rice for a painting. Each time, he would take the
money he received to a stone carver who he commissioned to sculpt an
image that he himself designed. The five hundred stone arhats (Buddhist
sages) at Mount Sekimine represents Jakuchū’s attempt to reenact the
life of the Buddha through these statues. The great artist died on September 10, 1800, at the ripe old age of eighty-five. Even in his old age, however, he continued to produce innovative and amusing works such as his stone statues and paintings. |
 11 Yosa Buson, Old Pine (right screen), Private Collection Buson produced this painting two years before he
died. It has not been exhibited for seventy-seven years, since 1932. |
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 Hiroyuki Kano (Professor, Faculty of Culture and Information Science,
Doshisha University)
Nobuo Tsuji (Director of MIHO MUSEUM) |
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Other works on exhibit Ike Taiga, Su Dongpo and Meng Jia, Feinberg Collection, U.S.A.* Soga Shōhaku, Hawk and Crane Flying over Waves, Private Collection Maruyama Ōkyo, Mount Fuji and Pines along Shore, Chiba City Museum of Art Katsu Jagyoku, Snake with Ball, Private Collection* *Newly discovered work. |
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