# Bamboo and Rocks in Clearing Skies

- By: Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776)
- Date: mid-1700s
- Medium: Two-panel folding screen; ink on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Image: 163.2 x 182.6 cm (64 1/4 x 71 7/8 in.)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.337)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.337/1958.337_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The title written on this screen corresponds to one on a design in Taiga’s Brush Methods (大雅堂画法). The concept conveyed is one of scenery and spirit refreshed by precipitation. In the screen, a rain-filled stream rushes from the mountains into a river. A village is nestled amid giant bamboo in the distance. A platform-like flat rock in the foreground invites us to step into the scene.