Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716) was a Japanese painter, lacquerer and textile designer of the Edo period, and the artist most closely identified with the Rinpa school. Born in Kyoto to the wealthy Kariganeya, a family of textile merchants who supplied the imperial court, he brought an inherited feel for sumptuous pattern to his art.

Kōrin perfected a boldly decorative manner — flattened space, lyrical natural motifs and lavish use of gold — in celebrated works such as the Irises screens and Red and White Plum Blossoms, both designated National Treasures of Japan. His influence on Japanese decorative art was so profound that the later revival of the style by Sakai Hōitsu and Kamisaka Sekka carried his name forward across the centuries.