Nakamura Hochu (died 1819)
Edo period (1615-1868), late 18th/early 19th centuryKakejiku (vertical hanging scroll), ink and colours on paper in silk mounts, depicting a cockerel and hen in a few deft strokes; signed Hochu kore o utsusu (Hochu drew this) and sealed; with a titled and inscribed wood tomobako storage box. Overall: 199cm x 45.7cm (75?in x 18in); image: 96cm x 27cm (37?in x 10 5/8in). (3).
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A practitioner of the Rinpa style in the years before its revival by Sakai Hoitsu around 1815, Nakamura Hochu appears to have been born in Kyoto and to have lived in Osaka from the 1790s until his death in 1819. He is also likely to have spent time in Edo (present-day Tokyo) in the 1790s and early 1800s. For comparable studies of cockerels and hens by this artist, see Ito Shiori ed., Korin o shitau Nakamura Hochu (Hochu Meets Korin), exhibition catalogue, Chiba City Museum of Art, 2014, cat. nos.98-99.