About the Artwork
Kōrin was the foremost decorative painter of the Edo period, and his art is credited with bridging the worlds of the old aristocratic imperial city of Kyoto and the Tokugawa shogunate’s brash new bourgeois military capital at Edo (Tokyo). Born the son of a wealthy Kyoto textile merchant, Kōrin led a privileged life and only turned to painting for a livelihood when the family fortune was exhausted. A world of easy grace is reflected in the elegant sophisticated paintings of sunlit corn and moonlit pampas grass on this fan. A talent for pattern and composition coalesced in Kōrin’s personal style, which is noted for forceful abstract design and the keen observation of nature that is so evident here.
Corn and Pampas Grass: Corn
between late 17th and early 18th century
Ogata Korin
1658-1716
Japanese
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Ink and color paint on gold paper
Overall: 55 1/4 × 18 7/8 inches (140.3 × 47.9 cm) Image: 23 3/4 × 12 3/4 inches (60.3 × 32.4 cm) Installed: 56 inches × 18 7/8 inches × 3/4 inches (142.2 × 47.9 × 1.9 cm)
Paintings
Asian Art
Founders Society Purchase, Stoddard Fund for Asian Art and Acquisitions Fund
78.66.1
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, left center, within a triangle formed by the plant stalk and leaves: Ogata Korin
Calligraphy, lower left
Stamp, in red, lower left: [artist's seal]
Provenance
(Mayuyama and Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan);1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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University Ligget Antiques Show. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe Woods, 1979, pp. 75, 79.
Bulletin of the DIA 59, no. 2/3 (1981): pp. 57-65; p. 58 (ill.).
"Family Art Game." Detroit News/Detroit Free Press, April 18, 1982, p. 33 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].
Kobayashi, Tadashi. Rimpa Paintings. Vol. 2, Seasonal Flowering Plants. Japan, 1990, p. 190 (ill.).
Emura, Tomoko. “Rinpa Artists and the Samurai Class.” Bulletin of the DIA 88, no. 1/4 (2014): pp. 76, 81 (figs. 8-9).
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Ogata Korin, Corn and Pampas Grass: Corn, between late 17th and early 18th century, ink and color paint on gold paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Stoddard Fund for Asian Art and Acquisitions Fund, 78.66.1.
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