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Carp and Water Chestnut
— Showa lifetime impression1926
1926
$1,200
£911.30
€1,046.91
CA$1,691.72
A$1,798.64
CHF 972.65
MX$21,395.43
NOK 12,183.86
SEK 11,127.49
DKK 7,820.77
About the Item
Ohara Koson (1877-1945), 'Carp and Water Chestnut', color woodblock print, 1926. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream Japan paper; the full sheet, in excellent condition.
Signed 'Koson' with the artist’s red seal 'Koson'. Published by Watanabe Shozaburo. With the Watanabe 'C' seal in the lower right margin, indicating a lifetime impression printed between 1929-1942.
Image size 13 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches (343 x 184 mm); sheet size 14 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (368 x 191 mm). Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Literature: 'Crows, Cranes, and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson', Newland, Amy R.: Jan Perree
Robert Schaap, Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2001. S39.1, pl 169.
Collections: National Museum of Asian Art (Smithsonian), Smart Museum of Chicago (University of Chicago).
In Japanese art, the carp represents good luck and good fortune.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Koson Ohara (also Shoson and Hoson, 1877-1945) is the most renowned Japanese artist of early 20th-century kacho-e (bird-and-flower pictures) woodblock printmaking. With meticulous detail, sensitive color, and a palpable reverence for flora and fauna, Koson brought the genre into the modern era.
Koson was born in Kanazawa with the given name Matao Ohara. He began his artistic career studying painting under the Shijo-style master Kason. Around the turn of the century, Koson became a teacher at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, where he met Ernest Fenollosa, an American collector, scholar, and admirer of Japanese art and culture. Around 1905, Koson started to produce woodblock prints. Fenollosa, the curator of Japanese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and an adviser to the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, persuaded Koson to export his bird prints to American art collectors.
Between 1900 and 1912, Koson worked with several different publishers and designed a series of Russo-Japanese War prints, as well as genre landscapes, but his passion remained with kacho-e. His earliest and rarest designs are notable for their narrow formats and soft colors. All his woodblock prints were signed or sealed Koson—most of them published by Kokkeido and Daikokuya. After 1912, he changed his name to Shoson and dedicated himself to painting.
Ten years later, Koson returned to printmaking, and in 1926, he began designing woodblock prints for the esteemed Shin Hanga publisher Shozaburo Watanabe. Koson changed his name once again, this time to Hoson, when he produced designs collaboratively published by Sakai and Kawaguchi around 1930. He also served as an adviser to the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.
Koson’s prints can be found in many major museums worldwide, including the British Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Freer Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, LACMA collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Creator:Ohara Koson (1877 - 1945, Japanese)
- Creation Year:1926
- Dimensions:Height: 13.5 in (34.29 cm)Width: 9.25 in (23.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Myrtle Beach, SC
- Reference Number:Seller: 981591stDibs: LU53239136662
Ohara Koson
Ohara Koson was a prolific printmaker of the 20th century widely known for his kacho-ga, bird and flower prints. During his study with Kason, he took his artist name Koson, a partial adaptation of his teacher's name. Early in his career, many of Koson’s prints were muted in color and captured a sense of calmness and elegance. Koson’s depiction of birds are very realistic, the details of body and feathers in particular were always depicted with meticulous care.
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