Kōrin Picture Album (Kōrin gafu 光琳画譜) : [volume 2]

Nakamura, Hōchū, active 18th century-19th century · 6 pictures

Kōrin Picture Album, volume 2, is a Japanese woodblock-printed picture book compiled by Nakamura Hōchū, active in the 18th and 19th centuries, after the painter Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716), intended for artists and students of painting. Its pages show loosely inked figures of people in motion, seated courtly figures in patterned robes, a tree with a basket and figures beneath it, and birds rendered in soft washes of grey, blue and rose. A designer could take its economical contour line, flat colour washes and uncrowded spacing as a model for simple figure drawing and pattern.

Ogata, Kōrin, 1658-1716

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