The Kōrin Picture Book (Volume 1)
Nakamura Hōchū (Japanese, d. 1819)
1800s
- Medium
- one of a 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.); Book page: 25.2 x 18.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 3/16 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
Ogata Korin (1658-1716) was one of the most admired artists of Rimpa, or "decorative school painting." These books by the charming later-generation Rimpa artist Hochu record Korin's inventive designs.
