Corn and Pampas Grass: Corn

between late 17th and early 18th century

Ogata Korin Japanese, 1658-1716

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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.

Title Corn and Pampas Grass: Corn

Artwork Date between late 17th and early 18th century

Artist Ogata Korin

Life Dates 1658-1716

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Japanese

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Ink and color paint on gold paper

Dimensions 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)

Classification Paintings

Department Asian Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Stoddard Fund for Asian Art and Acquisitions Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 78.66.1

Markings

Signed Signed, left center, within a triangle formed by the plant stalk and leaves: Ogata Korin

Inscriptions Calligraphy, lower left

Marks Stamp, in red, lower left: [artist's seal]

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(Mayuyama and Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan)

1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

University Ligget Antiques Show. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe Woods, 1979, pp. 75, 79.

Bulletin of the DIA 59, nos. 2/3 (1981): pp. 57-65, p. 58 (ill.).

"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit News/Detroit Free Press, April 18, 1982, p. 33 (ill.).

Kobayashi, Tadashi. Rimpa Paintings, Vol II: 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.