Kōrin's painting style (Kōrin gashiki)
Kōrin's Painting Style, published in Osaka and Kyoto in 1818 by Surugaya Kyūbei, Kikuya Shichirobei and Kikuya Kihei, is a Japanese picture manual by Minwa Aikawa that reproduces designs after the painter Ogata Kōrin for artists and readers of the period. The pages show flowering plants, branches and birds in plain ink wash with light colour, often with a single bird or blossom set against blank paper. A designer could take from them the economical spacing of motifs, the asymmetric placement of branches across a double-page spread, and the restrained use of grey tone and pale colour.
