2-727-395 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Double Album of Landscape Studies after Ikeno Taiga, Volume 2 (leaf 36), 18th century. Traditionally, young painters in Japan began their studies with an established master-painter. The master's compositions invariably became models that the apprentice copied to learn various ink and brush techniques. Shukuya was a pupil of the famous Kyoto artist Ikeno Taiga, whose style is reflected in these sketches of rocks, trees, and mountains.