Property of a private Swedish Collection. Purchased at Kitano Oriental Art, Karlavägen 22, Stockholm. From the exhibition Kacho-e 19th Nov-8th December 2002.

Amy Reigle Newland, Jan Perrée, Robert Schaap; Crows, Cranes & Camellias, the natural world of Ohara Koson 1877-1945. A print like this is depicted on page 42. The book accompanies the print.

Ohara Koson (also Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the forefront of shinsaku-hanga and shin-hanga art movements. Ohara Koson was famous as a master of kachō-e (bird-and-flower) designs. Throughout a prolific career, in which he created around 500 prints, he went by three different titles: Ohara Hōson (小原豊邨), Ohara Shōson (小原祥邨) and Ohara Koson.

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