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[Pattern designs for cotton summer kimonos] – Historic Reproduction

[Pattern designs for cotton summer kimonos], [not before 1815] — historic print
[Pattern designs for cotton summer kimonos], [not before 1815]. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Pattern designs for cotton summer kimonos] comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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This sheet is a single page from *Kōrin hyakuzu* (*One Hundred Designs by Kōrin*), a pattern book published in Kyoto by Hosokawa Kaiekidō, and its designs for lightweight cotton summer kimonos show the bold, decorative style of the painter and designer Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716). Pattern books like this one gave dyers, weavers, and other craftspeople ready-made motifs, so the printed page carried Kōrin's influence well beyond his own lifetime. The woodcut was made after his death, probably in the early 1800s, when his work was widely copied and admired. Its prints are a useful record of how textile design circulated in Japan during that period.

Created / published[not before 1815]
Medium1 print : woodcut.
Genreorganized by the Library of Congress, 2001.
NotesPage in: Kōrin hyakuzu. Kyōto : Hosokawa Kaiekidō, [not before 1815]. Title devised by Library staff. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows
SubjectsPatterns (Design elements)--1810-1820. Kimonos--1810-1820.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,689 × 4,584 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222091

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