The Kōrin Picture Book
Nakamura Hōchū (Japanese, d. 1819)
1802–1899
- Medium
- Set of two woodblock printed folding-books; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Book: 26 x 37.5 cm (10 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- Bound volume
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
About
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.
