Portraits of Ike Taiga and His Calligraphies in Seal and Grass Styles by Tomioka Tessai

Portraits of Ike Taiga and His Calligraphies in Seal and Grass Styles late 19th - early 20th century

ink, color-on-paper

aged paper

toned paper

ink paper printed

book

sketch book

japan

personal sketchbook

ink

color-on-paper

coloured pencil

sketchbook drawing

watercolour illustration

sketchbook art

watercolor

Tomioka Tessai's "Portraits of Ike Taiga and His Calligraphies in Seal and Grass Styles" is a late 19th-century Japanese painting on paper. Depicting the famed calligrapher Ike Taiga, the artwork portrays Taiga sitting in traditional Japanese garb. Tessai, known for his mastery of brushwork, showcases his skills with the detail and expressiveness of the portrait. This intimate work captures Taiga's likeness and provides a glimpse into the life of a renowned figure in Japanese calligraphy.

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Tomioka Tessai is counted among the last of Japan’s Nanga painters. A student of poetry, Japanese philosophy, Confucianism, and a variety of painting styles in his youth, and briefly a Shinto priest, Tessai spent most of his life in Kyoto, where he was a leading figure in late Nanga circles. With his friends, the prominent Meiji-period Nanga Tanomura Chokunyū (1814–1907) and Taniguchi Aizen (1816–1899), Tessai helped establish the Japan Nanga Society (Nihon Nanga Kyōkai) in 1896. In the final year of his life, he was conferred with the title, “Artisan of the Imperial Household” (Teishitsu gigei’in).