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Read the poem at upper left, then find its scenes in turn: the temple on the far shore, the maple and fishing boats, and the traveler’s boat half hidden below.
At upper left Taiga copied out a famous poem by Zhang Ji, a Chinese poet of the 700s. After moonset, under a frosty sky full of cawing crows, a traveler lies awake in his boat near a maple on the bank and the lights of fishing boats, and hears the midnight bell of Hanshan Temple beyond the walls of Gusu. Taiga paints each part: the boat in dense foliage below, a maple tree and two fishing boats out on the river, the temple far off.
hanging scroll; ink and color on paper · Mounted: 210.1 x 53 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Night Mooring at Maple Bridge
- Artist
- Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776)
- Date
- mid- to late 1700s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Mounted: 210.1 x 53 cm (82 11/16 x 20 7/8 in.); Painting only: 134.9 x 38.4 cm (53 1/8 x 15 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Maud Eells Corning
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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.