Pheasants and Hanging-Cherry

Image Rights & Reproductions Requirements

Artist

Ohara Koson

nationality

Japanese

birth-death

1877-1945

Collection

Asian

Materials

color woodblock print

Dimensions

13 11/16 x 7 1/2 in. (image) 14 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. (sheet)

Not Currently On View

Credit line

Bequest of Grace Ritchie

Accession number

2000.320

Gallery Label

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雉に枝垂桜図

Koson was the foremost designer of bird-and-flower prints (kachō-e) from 1900 on. The American Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908) persuaded Koson to send his prints to the United States, and much of his work was for export. Eventually his prints also found favor in Japan.

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