Artist · 6 prints
Ogata Korin Prints
About Ogata Kōrin
Ogata Kōrin was a Japanese painter and designer, born in Kyoto in 1658, during the Edo period. His family ran Kariganeya, a prosperous shop selling fine kimono fabrics to the city's elite, and owned works by the earlier artists Hon'ami Kōetsu and Tawaraya Sōtatsu, which Kōrin studied closely. He became a professional painter in 1697, spent several years in Edo, today's Tokyo, and died in Kyoto in 1716. His younger brother was the potter Ogata Kenzan, whose ceramics Kōrin often decorated.
Kōrin's style is bold, simplified and decorative, often in bright colour or ink on gold leaf, and he applied it to folding screens, lacquerware, textiles and ceramics. Rinpa, the name later given to this whole tradition of Japanese decorative art, means "school of Kōrin". His Irises screens, at the Nezu Museum in Tokyo, and Red and White Plum Blossoms, at the MOA Museum of Art, are both National Treasures of Japan.
Ogata Kōrin prints: reproductions of a crane design by the Japanese Rinpa painter Ogata Kōrin, offered in several colourways. The collection includes Cranes, Cranes in Red, Cranes in Blue, Cranes in Green and Cranes in Orange.
This selection focuses on a single Kōrin motif: a group of cranes drawn in his flat, simplified decorative style, with strong outlines and little background. Each colourway places the same birds on a different ground colour, from red and orange to green, blue and brown, so the design can be matched to a room or hung as a set.
The bold, simple shapes suit modern living rooms, bedrooms, entryways and home offices, and two or three colourways hang well side by side. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
