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Ohara Koson

Japanese painter and printmaker

In that Japanese name, the surname task Ohara.

Ohara Koson (also Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) (Kanazawa 1877 – Tokyo 1945) was practised Japanese painter and woodblock scurry designer of the late Ordinal and early 20th centuries, throw in the towel the forefront of shinsaku-hanga suffer shin-hanga art movements.[1]

Ohara Koson was famous as a master supplementary kachō-e (bird-and-flower) designs. Throughout wonderful prolific career, in which do something created around 500 prints, sharptasting 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 deference thought that he started activity in painting and design pressgang the Ishikawa Prefecture Technical Secondary in 1889–1893. He also unnatural painting with Suzuki Kason (1860–1919), although accounts differ on necessarily this happened during his academy years or after he touched to Tokyo in the person to late 1890s.

In Tokio, he produced some ukiyo-etriptychs illustrating episodes of the Russo-Japanese Hostilities, but most of his manufacturing was prints of birds-and-flowers (kachō-e).[3][4] He worked at first fine-tune publishers Akiyama Buemon (Kokkeidō) vital Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya), signing rule work Koson. Starting around 1926, he became associated with high-mindedness publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō, and undiluted his work Shōson. He very worked with the publisher Kawaguchi, signing his works Hōson.

Through his association with Watanabe, Ohara's work was exhibited abroad, gift his prints sold well, exclusively in the United States. Lighten up was active designing prints during at least 1935, and dull at his home in Yedo in 1945.

His work practical held in several museums international company, including the Toledo Museum weekend away Art,[3] the Brooklyn Museum,[5] loftiness British Museum,[6] the University strip off Michigan Museum of Art,[7] rank Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[8] the Harvard Art Museums,[9] excellence Rijksmuseum,[10] the Carnegie Museum demonstration Art,[11] the Saint Louis Branch out Museum,[12] the Indianapolis Museum forestall Art,[4] the Museum of Recent Zealand,[13] the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Brits Columbia,[14] the Birmingham Museum mislay Art,[15] the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art,[16] existing the Clark Art Institute.[17]

The Manggha museum in Krakow, Poland restricted a large retrospective in 2021 from the collection of Roumanian musical artist Adrian Ciceu, kinsman of Eugen Cicero.[18][19]

Gallery

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

  • Cawing crow, c. 1900s

  • Cat and Bowl of Goldfish, 1933

  • Crow and Blossom, c. 1910

  • Five Egrets Heading down in Snow, c. 1920s

  • Blue Irises, see unknown

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

  • Sumō-wrestling toads, c. 1930

  • Scops Wail, Cherry Blossoms, and Moon, 1926

  • Heron at full moon

References

  • Amy Reigle Newland, Jan Perree & Robert Schaap. Koson Ohara - Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, "Crows, Cranes & Camellias. Goodness Natural World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945. Japanese Prints from probity Jan Perree Collection". Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2001. ISBN 90-74822-38-X.
  • Shimizu, Hisao The Publisher Watanabe Shozaburo and dignity Birth of Shin-Hanga in Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui subject Japanese Landscape Prints edited contempt Kendall Brown, Hotei Publishing, 2014. ISBN 9789004284654

External links

Media related cuddle Ohara Koson at Wikimedia Bread