One Hundred Old Men Gathering for a Drinking Party

Object Details

• Artist

  Ike Taiga 池大雅 (1723-1776)

• Label

  This handscroll shows a large group of elderly men proceeding toward a rural village to the left. There, a convivial party is in progress. The landscape is fluently painted with rough sweeps of ink depicting distant hills, foreground rocks and trees. Touches of gold and color are freely applied.

  The painter's depiction of the crowd of celebrants is lively and humorous. Although the figures are painted in the most abbreviated manner, repeating a formula for faces like the patterns of foliage or the forms of rocks, their expressions are varied and engaging. The painting is replete with charming details such as the rooster on the thatched roof watching over his family below. The inventive freedom of Taiga's style in his late 30s is apparent in this energetic and exuberant work.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Arts of Japan: Edo Aviary and Poetic License (February 2 to August 4, 2013)

  Poetic License: Making Old Worlds New (February 2 to August 4, 2013)

  Landscapes in Japanese Art (February 2 to July 15, 2007)

  Japanese Screens (May 9, 1993 to November 13, 1995)

  Japanese Nanga School Painting (November 7, 1985 to March 9, 1987)

  Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)

  Japanese Art, Galleries 3, 4, and 5 (January 1, 1963 to September 16, 1970)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Ike, Taiga

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Rites and ceremonies, Art, Elder, Food habits, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ukiyo-e

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings