池大雅筆 蘭亭曲水図屏風 秋社図屏風|Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival
ca. 1763
Medium
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Image (each): 63 1/4 in. × 11 ft. 8 3/16 in. (160.7 × 356 cm) Overall with mounting: 69 9/16 in. × 12 ft. 2 7/16 in. (176.7 × 372 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015
Accession Number
2015.300.163.1, .2
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About this artwork
This magnificent pair of six-panel folding screens exemplifies the bunjin-ga (literati painting) style that Ike no Taiga helped establish during Japan's Edo period. Created in 1763, the screens depict two revered Chinese cultural themes: the Orchid Pavilion Gathering on the right and the Autumn Harvest Festival on the left. The Orchid Pavilion motif references the legendary gathering of 353 CE, when the calligrapher Wang Xizhi summoned forty-one literati to the Orchid Pavilion in Zhejiang Provin...