The Kōrin Picture Book (1800s): Art, History and Details

The Kōrin Picture Book (1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Nakamura Hōchū (Japanese, d. 1819).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the 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.

Object facts

• Title: The Kōrin Picture Book
• Date: 1800s
• Creator attribution: Nakamura Hōchū (Japanese, d. 1819)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Bound Volume
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1991.118

A detail from the museum

This set of books is in the orihon, or folding-book format.

Collection credit

Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Leighton R. Longhi

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.