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context: painting > great schools > rimpa > Ogata brothers > Ogata Korin
Ogata Korin, the prankster
He liked his satirical art-pranks. I've never heard anything else like this from so long ago...
A bourgeois picnic. Everyone else with elaborately lacquered golden and silver boxes. Ogata Korin takes out his food wrapped in some bamboo leaves, and starts unfurling them to reveal that their insides are covered with gold foil. He tosses them into the river and starts to eat.
I've not seen anything else about beauty contests in early-Edo Japan, but Ogata Korin, one of the biggest influences on textiles in his time, apparently arranged and orchestrated one contest so that the winner was a woman dressed in simple white with a black wrap, attended by a servant in extragant and sumptuous colours.