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Kōrin Picture Album (Kōrin gafu 光琳画譜) : [volume 1]

Nakamura, Hōchū, active 18th century-19th century · 7 pictures

Kōrin Picture Album is a Japanese woodblock pattern book in volume 1, made by Nakamura Hōchū in the late Edo period and modelled on the painter Ogata Kōrin's designs for artists and craftsmen. The pictures show flattened, decorative motifs with stylised wave scrolls, flying birds, chrysanthemums, morning glories, canna lilies and pines in grey, ochre, pink and blue ink. A designer might take simple repeating motifs, asymmetric placement across the page, and restrained colour fields from them.

Ogata, Kōrin, 1658-1716

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