designs described as nōtan, so it is no wonder that Fenollosa, who conceived the term nōtan, was one of the early promoters of Rinpa artists. Beginning in the early twentieth century, Japanese scholars reasserted the importance of Kōrin in naming this tradition, but linked him with Sōtatsu, whom they had recently identified, and so the name “Sōtatsu-Kōrin School” came into vogue. By the post-war period, an abbreviated appellation of Kōrin’s name (joining the second character of his name, “Rin” with the word for school, “ha”) resulted in the tradition being renamed “Rimpa” (which is now more commonly spelled “Rinpa”). This name came into standard usage in the early 1970s following two popular exhibitions, one in the USA at the Japan Society (1971) and the other at the Tokyo National Museum (1972).
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