Ohara Koson
Ohara Koson, 'Goldfish beneath flowering Wisteria'
Woodblock print. Image 34 x 18 cm. Frame 38 x 22 cm.
Not examined out of frame. Faded/yellowed. Six darkened stripes to the paper. Possibly partly later coloured with white.
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Japanese goldfish, known as kingyo, symbolise good luck and fortune due to their metallic scales.
Artist
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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