Plum Blossoms, Ogata Korin Japanese Fine Art Postcard

Japanese fan, Kyoto, 1702, ink and colour on gold paper. Honolulu Academy of Arts. Ogata Kōrin (1658 - June 2, 1716) was a Japanese painter and lacquerer. He was born in Kyoto, to a wealthy merchant who had a taste for the arts and is said to have given his son some elementary instruction therein. Kōrin also studied under Soken Yamamoto, the Kanō school, Tsunenobu and Gukei Sumiyoshi, and was greatly influenced by his predecessors Hon'ami Kōetsu and Tawaraya Sōtatsu. On arriving at maturity, however, he broke away from all tradition, and developed a very original and quite distinctive style of his own, both in painting and in the decoration of lacquer. The characteristic of this is a bold impressionism, which is expressed in few and simple highly idealised forms, with an absolute disregard for both realism and the usual conventions. Floral Asian fine art botanical nature painting.