Mount Horai
Kosetsu Ogino
1860s
Medium
Color woodblock print; surimono
Dimensions
25 × 18.4 cm (9 7/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
42898
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
In this print, Kosetsu Ogino pays sly homage to the Rimpa school and its traditional founder, Ogata Korin, by depicting a rock with the tarashikomi technique often used by Korin and his followers. This technique consists of dripping pigments into liquid paint or water, creating blurry outlines and unevenly mixed colors, and it came to symbolize the members of the Rimpa school. Here Kosetsu cleverly parodied the common New Year motif Horai (the immortals’ island) by substituting a moss brown roc...