28-1Ogata Korin,Red Plum Blossoms,Edo period, ca. 1710–1716. Detail of one of a pair of two-panel folding screens
(FIG. I-12). Ink, color, and gold leaf on paper, each screen 5 15 – 8 5 7 –^78 . MOA Art Museum, Shizuoka-ken.
Ogata Korin was one of the leading painters of the 18th-century Rinpa School. In this work he reduced the landscape motifs
to a minimum to offer a dramatic contrast of forms and visual textures.
1 ft.