The Kōrin Picture Book
Nakamura Hōchū (Japanese, d. 1819)
1800s
- Medium
- Set of two woodblock printed folding-books; ink and color on paper
- Classification
- Bound Volume
- Dimensions
- Book: 26 x 37.5 cm (10 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Leighton R. Longhi
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
