Furuya Kōrin

Artwork: Green and Blue Wave Pattern, from Shima Shima, 1906

Furuya Kōrin (1875–1910) was a Kyoto designer of the Meiji-era Rinpa revival. A pupil of Kamisaka Sekka, he took his art name from Ogata Kōrin, the Rinpa master of two centuries before him, and called himself the Kōrin of the modern age.

Kōrin worked in the hinagata-bon tradition: woodblock-printed pattern books made as working sources for Kyoto’s kimono dyers and weavers. The Shima Shima books — shima means stripes — were published in Kyoto by Shimbi Shoin in 1906, cataloguing stripe and wave patterns within the Rinpa lineage of Japanese design publishing.

The prints below are drawn from the Shima Shima pattern books: stripes, waves, tessellations and grids, reproduced as fine art prints. They are working patterns from a design tradition, presented here as they appeared on the 1906 pages.

The works

Japanese Meiji Era Woodblock Textile Print – Vintage Green and Blue Wave Pattern
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Golden Undulation – Meiji Era Japanese Woodblock Textile Print
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Blue and Red Zigzag Japanese Edo Era Vintage Textile Print – Japanese Wall Art
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Suspended Forms – Meiji Era Japanese Woodblock Textile Print
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Green and White Pinstripes Japanese Edo Era Vintage Textile Print – Japanese Wall Art
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Directional Arrows – Meiji Era Japanese Woodblock Textile Print
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Green and Black Tessellation Japanese Edo Era Vintage Textile Print – Japanese Wall Art
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Green and Yellow Square Mesh Japanese Edo Era Vintage Textile Print – Japanese Wall Art
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Green, Yellow, and Red Stripe Grid Japanese Edo Era Vintage Textile Print – Japanese Wall Art
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Green and Yellow Vertical Wave Stripes Japanese Edo Era Vintage Textile Print – Japanese Wall Art
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