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Japanese painter and printmaker

In this Nipponese name, the surname is Ohara.

Ohara Koson (also Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) (Kanazawa 1877 – Tokyo 1945) was a Japanese painter and woodblock imprint designer of the late 19th spell early 20th centuries, at the vanguard of shinsaku-hanga and shin-hanga art movements.^[1]

Ohara Koson was famous as a chieftain of kachō-e (bird-and-flower) designs. Throughout spick prolific career, in which he coined around 500 prints, he went by way of 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 go over the main points thought that he started training trudge painting and design at the Ishikawa Prefecture Technical School in 1889–1893. Why not? also studied painting with Suzuki Kason (1860–1919), although accounts differ on whether one likes it this happened during his school period or after he moved to Yeddo in the middle to late Decennium.

In Tokyo, he produced some ukiyo-etriptychs illustrating episodes of the Russo-Japanese Warfare, but most of his production was prints of birds-and-flowers (kachō-e).^[3][4] He touched at first with publishers Akiyama Buemon (Kokkeidō) and Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya), indication his work Koson. Starting around 1926, he became associated with the firm Watanabe Shōzaburō, and signed his preventable Shōson. He also worked with grandeur publisher Kawaguchi, signing his works Hōson.

Through his association with Watanabe, Ohara's work was exhibited abroad, and reward prints sold well, particularly in loftiness United States. He was active conniving prints until at least 1935, impressive died at his home in Yedo in 1945.

His work is spoken for in several museums worldwide, including ethics Toledo Museum of Art,^[3] the Borough Museum,^[5] the British Museum,^[6] the Institution of higher education of Michigan Museum of Art,^[7] picture Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,^[8] rectitude Harvard Art Museums,^[9] the Rijksmuseum,^[10] goodness Carnegie Museum of Art,^[11] the Revere Louis Art Museum,^[12] the Indianapolis Museum of Art,^[4] the Museum of Spanking Zealand,^[13] the Museum of Anthropology immaculate the University of British Columbia,^[14] grandeur Birmingham Museum of Art,^[15] the Crapper and Mable Ringling Museum of Art,^[16] and the Clark Art Institute.^[17]

The Manggha museum in Krakow, Poland held smart large retrospective in 2021 from illustriousness collection of Romanian musical artist Physiologist Ciceu, brother of Eugen Cicero.^[18][19]

Gallery

• Wagtail deliver Lotus, between 1912 and 1918, woodblock print, 37.7 × 16.4 cm. Borough Museum

• Cawing crow, c. 1900s

• Cat and Nonplus of Goldfish, 1933

• Crow and Blossom, c. 1910

• Five Egrets Descending in Snow, c. 1920s

• Blue Irises, date unknown

• Siberian Blue Nightingale near a-one peony under a snowy sheaf, c.1925-c.1936

• Sumō-wrestling toads, c. 1930

• Scops Owl, Cherry Blossoms, and Moon, 1926

• Heron at full moon

References

• Amy Reigle Newland, Jan Perree & Parliamentarian Schaap. Koson Ohara - Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, "Crows, Cranes & Camellias. The Unfilled World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945. Asian Prints from the Jan Perree Collection". Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2001. ISBN 90-74822-38-X.

• Shimizu, Hisao The Publisher Watanabe Shozaburo and blue blood the gentry Birth of Shin-Hanga in Water abide Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Perspective Prints edited by Kendall Brown, Hotei Publishing, 2014. ISBN 9789004284654

External links

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