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Follow the pilgrims across the scroll toward the left, where people kneel and bow, and see how each figure is built from a few blunt, smudged lines.
Pilgrims crowd in to make offerings to the Jizō nun, a holy woman believed able to speak with the bodhisattva Jizō, who could save souls after death. Taiga’s long inscription tells her story, and a short poem in Japanese at left praises her. The Art Institute of Chicago thinks he worked without a normal brush, perhaps with twists of paper dipped in ink, which suits the quick, informal script.
Hanging scroll; ink on paper · 54.9 × 123.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Group Pilgrimage to the Jizo Nun
- Artist
- Ike Taiga Japanese, 1723-1776
- Date
- 1755/65
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 54.9 × 123.2 cm (21 5/8 × 48 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Kate S. Buckingham Endowment; Margaret Gentles Fund; Purchased with funds provided by Roger L. Weston, George and Roberta Mann, Harlow and Susan Higinbotham, Charles C. Haffner III, James M. and Carol D. Trapp
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1723–1776
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.