MS Japanese 48

2 woodblock printed volumes containing reproductions of works by Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716). He was a member of the Rinpa school and the foremost decorative painter of Edo; he also produced ceramics, textiles and lacquerware. The selection and reproductions were the work of Ikeda Koson (1801-1866), an artist who turned away from Rinpa revival style of Sakai Hōitsu after encountering Ming painting. The title of this work, which was published in 1864 and distributed by Izumiya Kin’emon of Edo, recalls Kōrin hyakuzu, a tribute to Kōrin produced on the centenary of his death in 1815 by Sakai Hōitsu.

Japan, 1864

Material: paper; 2冊 | 2 volumes; binding dimensions: height 257mm, width 189mm, depth 23mm

Purchased by the Wellcome Library at auction from Stevens’s in 1905.

Formerly in the collection of Christopher Dresser.