Minneapolis Institute of Art
Thirty-Six Immortal Poets
Ikeda Koson
- Date
- mid 19th century
- Medium
- Two-panel folding screen, ink and color on silk
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
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
The authoritative record is held by Minneapolis Institute of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Minneapolis Institute of Art and other institutions.
Thirty-Six Immortal Poetesses
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals
Cleveland Museum of Art
Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals of the Buddhist Clergy
Cleveland Museum of Art
Portraits and Poems of the Thirty-six Poetic Immortals
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen), from the series "Collection of Comic Performances from the Niwaka Festival in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro niwaka kyogen zukushi)"
Art Institute of Chicago
Taira no Kanemori of the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals
Cleveland Museum of Art
Twelve Poetic Immortals and Their Poems
Art Institute of Chicago
The Six Immortals of Poetry, Abbreviated
Art Institute of Chicago
The Poetess Ono no Komachi, from the series "Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen)"
Art Institute of Chicago
Poems from Shūi gusō and Shin kokin wakashū, Six Immortal Poets from the Shinkokinshu
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Thirty Poets
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Frontispiece to the illustrated album "Thirty-six Immortal Women Poets" ("Nishikizuri onna sanjurokkasen")
Art Institute of Chicago