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Mount Horai

A work made of color woodblock print; surimono.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of color woodblock print; surimono.

Date:

1860s

Artist:

Kosetsu Ogino
Japanese, active late 19th century

About this artwork

In this print, Kosetsu Ogino pays sly homage to the Rimpa school and its traditional founder, Ogata Korin, by depicting a rock with the tarashikomi technique often used by Korin and his followers. This technique consists of dripping pigments into liquid paint or water, creating blurry outlines and unevenly mixed colors, and it came to symbolize the members of the Rimpa school.
Here Kosetsu cleverly parodied the common New Year motif Horai (the immortals’ island) by substituting a moss brown rock for the island and a branch of a nandina plant for the lofty pine tree. Kosetsu was a poet and print designer during the late Edo and early Meiji periods. He also contributed to this collection of poems; his piece is the fifth from the right.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Kosetsu Ogino

Title

Mount Horai

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1860–1869

Medium

Color woodblock print; surimono

Dimensions

25 × 18.4 cm (9 7/8 × 7 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Charles H. Mitchell Collection unrestricted gift

Reference Number

1972.1692

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