Landscape

beginning of 18th century

Japanese, 1658 - 1716

This monochrome ink landscape, painted directly onto the gold-backed screen, is singular among Ogata Korin’s completed works. It is painted in the spontaneous, abbreviated brush style of Japanese monk-painter Sesshu (1420–1506). The “ink puddling” technique of tarashikomi, passed down from fellow Rinpa-style painter Tawaraya Sotatsu, is visible in Korin’s rock formations.

Two-panel screen; ink on gilded paper

52 3/4 x 29 3/4 in. (134 x 75.5 cm)

Thomas D. Stimson Memorial Collection

51.129

Photo: Susan Dirk

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Refined Harmony: Decorative Arts from the Edo Period, Mar. 7, 2003 - Mar. 23, 2004.

Tokyo, Japan, Suntory Museum of Art, Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum, July 25 - Sept. 6, 2009 (Kobe, Japan, Kobe City Museum, Sept. 19 - Dec. 6, 2009; Kofu, Japan, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Dec. 23, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010; Atami, Japan, MOA Museum of Art, Mar. 13 - May 9, 2010; Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, May 23 - July 19, 2010).

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Luminous: The Art of Asia, Oct. 13, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012.

Published ReferencesFuller, Richard E. "Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum: An Historical Sketch." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1960 ("Presented in commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the United States of America"), no. 143

Kawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, editors, "Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum", 2009, The Yomiuri Shimbun, catalogue number 47

Kono, Motoaki, et al. Ogata Korin. Toyko: Heibonsha Ltd., 2015; p. 81, reproduced.

Feltens, Frank. Ogata Korin: Art in Early Modern Japan. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021; p. 121, reproduced fig. 77.

Lippit, Yuko and Frank Feltens. Sesson Shukei. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 2021; p. 136, reproduced fig. 15.

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