# The Kōrin Picture Book

- By: Nakamura Hōchū (Japanese, d. 1819)
- Date: 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)
- Credit line: Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Leighton R. Longhi
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.118)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.118/1991.118_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)

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.