The Kōrin Picture Book
Medium
Set of two woodblock printed folding-books; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
26 × 37.5 cm
Classification
Bound Volume
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Leighton R. Longhi
Accession Number
1991.118
Tags
male
About this artwork
Nakamura Hōchū prized the design acumen of earlier painter Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716) and honored him with this two-volume set of woodblock printed images. While Hōchū sampled the original compositions from Kōrin’s works, the prints in these books are heavily inflected with his own loose, whimsical drawing style.