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The Kōrin Picture Book
光琳画譜
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Nakamura Hōchū 中村 芳中
(Japanese, d. 1819)
(1615-1868)
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.)
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Leighton R. Longhi 1991.118
Location
not on view
Description
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.
Nakamura Hōchū
active late 1700s--early 1800s