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 Rh kwaiyo, of, we find a picture in black and white, representing four birds asleep on a branch of a tree with the moon in the background, which Anderson reproduces in Japanese Wood-Engraving, No..

In Nonomura Chubei published three volumes of reproductions after Korin with the title Michi shirube (sixty-five leaves). The pictures in the Korin mangwa (see below) are taken from this work. There appeared besides, in the eighteenth century, his designs for dress materials: —

Hinagata someiro no yama, several vols., vo. .

Hinagata mamiga no yama, vols., vo. Osaka,.

The majority of reproductions of his drawings, however, did not appear until the nineteenth century:—


 * Korin gwafu, sheets,  vols., small folio. Kioto, . Sketches of flowers in rapid brushwork; in light tones of blue, green, and red. Reproductions by Yoshinaka.
 * The same, coloured sheets, vo. Containing plants, animals, landscapes, and figures.
 * Korin gwashiki, sheets. Kioto, . Large double sheets of very delicately coloured reproductions. These slight and rapid animal sketches, which contain the three puppies reproduced by Bing in his Japon Artistique, count among the most original, lively, and delicate work of this master.
 * Korin hiakuzu, vols., vo. Yedo, . Reproductions in black and white, by Hoitsu (born, son of a daimio, became high priest in a temple at Kioto, died ); the first pulls bear his stamp.  drawings of miscellaneous content, kakemonos, fans, screens, landscapes, birds, and flowers. They were collected by a group of his admirers on the occasion of the centenary celebration of Korin's death, each member contributing one or more drawings. A second series, in two volumes, appeared in . Finally, in , a third, also in two volumes, was issued.