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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.
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155791
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The Kōrin Picture Book
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155791
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The Kōrin Picture Book
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.
date
1800s
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CC0
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en
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Q79944203
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34401
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Bound Volume
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Book: 26 x 37.5 cm (10 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.)
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Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
accession
1991.118
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Set of two woodblock printed folding-books; ink and color on paper
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The 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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光琳画譜
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Japanese Art
didYouKnow
This set of books is in the <em>orihon</em>, or folding-book format.
citations
citation
Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.
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Mentioned: p. 78
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Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Leighton R. Longhi
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2026-05-29 08:05:34.618000
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155791
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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Set of two woodblock printed folding-books; ink and color on paper
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photo
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