# Night Mooring at Maple Bridge

- By: Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776)
- Date: mid- to late 1700s
- Medium: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Classification: Painting
- 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.)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Credit line: Bequest of Maud Eells Corning
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.386)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.386/1992.386_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In the upper left corner of his painting, Ike Taiga has inscribed a poem by the Chinese poet Zhang Ji (張繼) (733?–779). It reads as follows:

The moon has set and crows caw as frost fills the sky. A riverside maple and fishing lights confront my uneasy sleep. Beyond the walls of Gusu lies Hanshan Temple. Its midnight bell reaches my traveler’s boat.

The traveler’s boat appears through dense foliage in the foreground. A maple and two fishing boats are in the middle ground. In the distance is Hanshan Temple.