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The Kōrin Picture Book
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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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineThe Kōrin Picture Book (光琳画譜), 1800s. Nakamura Hōchū (Japanese, d. 1819). Set of two woodblock printed folding-books; ink and color on paper; book: 26 x 37.5 cm (10 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Leighton R. Longhi, 1991.118
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