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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.349
People
Nakamura Hōchū 中村芳中, Japanese (d. 1819)
Title
Kōrin gafu (Kōrin Picture Album)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
book
Date
1802
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340417

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock-printed book (28 detached leaves); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
each sheet: 27.1 x 39 cm (10 11/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • signature: signature : (on colophon) Yowa mizunoe inu no toshi, Tōto ryokan no robata nite, Hōchū sha kore (Hōchū drew these, by the fireside at an inn in the Eastern Capital)
  • seal: Kako
  • seal: Ryuryoko

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Sotheby, London, lot 186 (1993), sold; [through Robert G. Sawers, London (1993)], to; Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, Bethesda, MD (1993-2018), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.349
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Matthew McKelway, Kobayashi Tadashi, and Yasumura Toshinobu, Silver Wind: The Arts of Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1828), exh. cat., Japan Society (New York, 2012), pp. 78-79, cat. 13
  • Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 78-79, cat. 70

Exhibition History

  • Silver Wind: the Arts of Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1828), Japan Society, New York, 09/29/2012 - 01/06/2013
  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/03/2015 - 06/07/2016

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