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Ike Taiga was a revolutionary known for revitalizing Japanese painting traditions in the eighteenth century. He infused the Chinese-inspired ink painting (nanga<\/em>) that was gaining favor among intellectuals in Kyoto with a purely Japanese aesthetic and humor. Group Pilgrimage to the Jizo Nun<\/em> is a snapshot of contemporary life in Japan presented from Taiga\u2019s unique perspective. The print depicts pilgrims making offerings to the Jizo nun, a holy woman believed to be able to communicate with the bodhisattva Jizo, who had the power to save souls in the afterlife.<\/p>\n

Group Pilgrimage<\/em> contains an inscription relating the story of the Jizo nun. Taiga was a master calligrapher, poet, and seal carver and was well versed in all forms of writing, from ancient seal script to cursive kana. Here he rendered the inscription in a cursive, informal style very much in keeping with the spontaneity of the painting itself. Taiga was also renowned for his use of finger painting and other odd techniques. Although opinions vary as to whether or not this work is a finger painting, it is clear that Taiga did not use a traditional brush. It seems likely that this could be a \u201cpaper twist painting,\u201d in which the artist worked with scraps of twisted paper charged with ink.<\/p>\n

Inscription:
Artist\u2019s inscription and signature
The 19 columns on the right side of the hanging scroll, comprising an 18-line prose describing the scene of crowd\u2019s pilgrimage to worship the Jiz\u014d nun with his signature mumei \u7121\u540d, reads as follows:
\u4e94\u6f31\u4e43\u6d66\u6fc3
\u4e45\u8def\u9ce5\u306a\u308b
\u53e4\u3068\u3057
\u91cc\u5c13\u590f\u306e\u306f\u3058\u514d
\u3064\u3089\u305f\u4e09\u6cb3\u306b\u4f4f\u3075
\u5730\u8535\u5c3c\u3068\u4ead
\u3088\u30cf\u3044\u4e09\u5341\u4e03\u306a\u308b
\u5341\u4e03\u306e\u3068\u3057\u3088\u308a\u304b\u3066
\u5802\u3061\u3051\u308b\u3068\u306a\u4e5d
\u53ef\u65bc\u898b\u795e\u8033
\u4e07\u3075\u308b\u3068\u8239\u307e\u3061\u5bf8\u3068\u3066
\u304b\u80fd\u3046\u3089\u304d\u3068\u306b\u53ef\u304f
\u8def\u3075\u3092\u65bc\u304b\u307e\u3093\u767b
\u6bdb\u5442\u4eba\u4f50\u3068\u3072\u3088\u308b
\u3061\u304b\u304d\u3042\u305f\u91cc\u8033
\u3042\u308a\u3051\u308b\u3075\u3068\u306b \u6253
\u6625\u9023\u66fd\u308b\u3068\u3044\u3068\u3081
\u3066\u305f<\/p>\n

\u7121\u540d<\/p>\n

In Gosu no Ura, the village where the black birds were born, I visited this year\u2013 at the beginning of the summer\u2013[a nun] living in Mikaw, who is called the Jizo ama [Jizo nun]. She is thirty-seven years of age. From the age of seventeen, I have traveled without fail. I come by boat to this bay in order to see the face of this kami and to worship her. To say nothing of the masses and the elite [i.e., everyone] who have come nearby to these gates to worship. If one lands [by ship] at this temple, it will truly be auspicious!<\/p>\n

Mumei [one of Taiga\u2019s art name]<\/p>\n

The 7 columns on the left side of the hanging scroll, comprising a thirty-one-syllable Japanese verse, read as follows:
\u5bf8\u3057\u5c13\u53e4\u3084\u3000
\u672c\u3068\u5e0c\u66fd\u3068
\u6bdb\u5442\u4eba\u6fc3
\u3044\u305f\u3060\u304d
\u4e07\u3064\u308b
\u3082
\u3068\u3075\u3068\u652f<\/p>\n

Nun of great refinement!
\nSaying, \u201cThis is the Buddha,\u201d
The multitudes come and worship.
You are truly remarkable.<\/p>\n

Artist Signature: Mumei \u7121\u540d
Artist Seals: Shin\u2019nei Ike shi; Mumei<\/p>\n

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