two panel screen with two separate images of flowers: blossoming white lilies and hydrangeas highlighted with blue, and two butterflies near top on R screen; three stalks of red and white hollyhocks on L panel

Lilies with Hydrangea and Hollyhocks, 1801

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Although not a direct student of Ogata Kōrin, Hōitsu was inspired by and studied extensively Kōrin’s paintings, beginning with those in his own family’s collection. Subsequently, he conducted a wide-ranging survey of Kōrin’s extant paintings, and compiled them in a woodblock-printed book that he titled One Hundred Paintings by Kōrin (Kōrin hyakuzu). Hōitsu is also credited with transmitting Kōrin’s style, the Rinpa style, to the capital Edo (now Tokyo).

In this two-panel screen combining summertime flowers, Hōitsu uses a number of painting techniques characteristic of his Rinpa forebears, including the distinctive dripping technique known as tarashikomi.

Details
Title
Lilies with Hydrangea and Hollyhocks
Artist Life
1761 - 1828
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2015.79.86
Catalogue Raisonne
Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 190
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two panel screen with two separate images of flowers: blossoming white lilies and hydrangeas highlighted with blue, and two butterflies near top on R screen; three stalks of red and white hollyhocks on L panel