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Japanese painter and printmaker

In this Japanese name, the surname is Ohara.

Ohara Koson (also Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) (Kanazawa &#; Tokyo ) 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.^[1]

Ohara Koson was famous as a master of kachō-e (bird-and-flower) designs.

Throughout a prolific career, in which he created around prints, he went by three different titles: Ohara Hōson (小原豊邨), Ohara Shōson (小原祥邨) and Ohara Koson.^[2]

Biography

He was born Ohara Matao; it is thought that he started training in painting and design at the Ishikawa Prefecture Technical School in &#; He also studied painting with Suzuki Kason (–), although accounts differ on whether this happened during his school years or after he moved to Tokyo in the middle to late s.

In Tokyo, he produced some ukiyo-etriptychs illustrating episodes of the Russo-Japanese War, but most of his production was prints of birds-and-flowers (kachō-e).^[3][4] He worked at first with publishers Akiyama Buemon (Kokkeidō) and Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya), signing his work Koson.

Bird pictures by koson ohara New User? As with the circuit, Yoshida featured his own work prominently, choosing of his own prints. Little is definitively known about the artist's life. It's important to credit Watanabe's artisans for the precision in carving and printing.

Starting around , he became associated with the publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō, and signed his work Shōson. He also worked with the publisher Kawaguchi, signing his works Hōson.

Through his association with Watanabe, Ohara's work was exhibited abroad, and his prints sold well, particularly in the United States. He was active designing prints until at least , and died at his home in Tokyo in

His work is held in several museums worldwide, including the Toledo Museum of Art,^[3] the Brooklyn Museum,^[5] the British Museum,^[6] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,^[7] the Chazen Museum of Art,^[8] the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,^[9] the Harvard Art Museums,^[10] the Rijksmuseum,^[11] the Carnegie Museum of Art,^[12] the Saint Louis Art Museum,^[13] the Indianapolis Museum of Art,^[4] the Museum of New Zealand,^[14] the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia,^[15] the Birmingham Museum of Art,^[16] the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art,^[17] and the Clark Art Institute.^[18]

The Manggha museum in Krakow, Poland held a large retrospective in from the collection of Romanian musical artist Adrian Ciceu, brother of Eugen Cicero.^[19][20]

Gallery

• Wagtail and Lotus, between and , woodblock print, × cm.

  Bird pictures by koson ohara images The exhibition debuted almost simultaneously in October in Indianapolis and at the Brooklyn Museum, a fact easily accomplished given that multiple copies of the prints had been sent to America, with this stock offered for sale at each venue. Ohara Koson is widely regarded as the master of nature prints in the 20th century, especially in the genre of kacho-e. Prints by Koson Ohara have always garnered significant appreciation within the collector community and among art enthusiasts. Kacho-e - Ohara Koson.

  Brooklyn Museum

• Cawing crow, c. s

• Cat and Bowl of Goldfish,

• Crow and Blossom, c.&#;

• Five Egrets Descending in Snow, c.&#;s

• Blue Irises, date unknown

• Siberian Blue Nightingale near a peony under a snowy sheaf, cc

• Sumō-wrestling toads, c.

• Scops Owl, Cherry Blossoms, and Moon,

• Heron at full moon

References

• Amy Reigle Newland, Jan Perree & Robert Schaap. Koson Ohara - Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, "Crows, Cranes & Camellias. The Natural World of Ohara Koson Japanese Prints from the Jan Perree Collection".

  Leiden: Hotei Publishing, ISBN&#;X.

• Shimizu, Hisao The Publisher Watanabe Shozaburo and the Birth of Shin-Hanga in Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints edited by Kendall Brown, Hotei Publishing, ISBN&#;

External links

Media related to Ohara Koson at Wikimedia Commons