Minneapolis Institute of Art
Thirty-Six Immortal Poets
Ikeda KosonLinkedCulture matchlcp-7cd23cd44b48
- Date
- mid 19th century
- Medium
- Two-panel folding screen, ink and color on silk
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 122156
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
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. Asia
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- Credit line
- Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation
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