Artist: Ike no Taiga, Japanese, 1723-1776, MoonlightBamboo, ca.1758-60, Six-panel folding screen: ink on paper, without mounting: 60 15/16 × 141 1/8 in. (154.8 × 358.4 cm), Ike Taiga was arguably the most celebrated literati artist in eighteenth-century Japan. In this painting, Taiga’s gigantic bamboo trunks, embellished with clusters of leaves rustling in a light breeze, are formed in superb ink tonalities. Taiga’s poem reads, Playing the koto [zither in a bamboo grove, the moon came from a thousand miles away (to shine on me). Though there is no moon in the composition, bamboo leaves in light ink evoke the illumination of the moon. The empty area at right represents a meditative space. Salter’s works reflect a profound understanding of the Zen philosophy of nothingness, and she speaks of her works as places where she can disappear while she is makingthem. , Japan, Japanese, Edo period(1615-1868), Paintings