News at Eleven: Versed in Chinese painting and poetry

of all periods, but especially that of the literati artists of the Ming and Qing dynasties; familiar with the reigning schools of official Japanese art; inculcated with Neo-Confucian thought and interested in Daoism and Buddhism, [Ike] Taiga was exceptionally erudite but not an aesthete; his work often has a visceral directness.

from The New York Times: In Japan, When Word Was Wed to Image

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