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Bullfinch on a Flowering Plum Tree = c. 1900, Color Woodblock.

Signed Koson with the artist’s red seal Koson, lower right.

Image size 13 7/16 x 7 1/4 inches (341 x 184 mm); sheet size 14 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches (365 x 191 mm).

A fine impression, with pronounced woodgrain and fresh colors, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet, in excellent condition. Stamped MADE IN JAPAN in the bottom right margin, verso. Published by Daikokuya.

Literature: Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson, Newland, Amy R.: Jan Perree & Robert Schaap, Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2001, pg 173.

Collections: National Museum of Asian Art (Smithsonian), Smart Museum of Chicago (University of Chicago).

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Eagle on a Snow Covered Pine Tree = c. 1905, Color Woodblock.

Signed Koson with the artist’s red seal Koson, lower left.

Image size 13 11/16 x 7 7/16 inches (348 x 189 mm); sheet size 14 1/2 x 8 1/8 inches (368 x 206 mm).

A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove Japan, with embossing, and the snow rendered with hand-splashed ‘gofun’, the full sheet in excellent condition. Stamped MADE IN JAPAN, in the bottom margin, verso. Published by Nishinomiya Yosaku.

Literature: Crows, Cranes & Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson, Newland, Amy R., Jan Perree & Robert Schaap: Hotei Publishing, 2001. pg. 86, pl. 67.

$1200.
Wading Egret = c. 1900-1910, Color Woodblock.

Signed Koson with the artist’s red seal, lower left.

Image size 13 11/16 x 7 1/8 (348 x 181 mm). Sheet size: 14 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches (365 x 190 mm).

A superb, skillfully-inked impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins, in excellent condition. Stamped MADE IN JAPAN in the bottom center margin, verso.

Published by Daikokuya.

Literature: Crows, Cranes & Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson, Newland, Amy R., Jan Perree & Robert Schaap: Hotei Publishing, 2001. pg. 82, pl. 61.

Provenance: Robert O. Muller Estate.

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

$1400.
Carp and Water Chestnut = 1926, Color Woodblock.

Signed Koson with the artist’s red seal Koson, lower right.

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).

A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet, in excellent condition. Published by Watanabe Shozaburo. The Watanabe 'C seal' in the lower right margin indicating a lifetime impression printed between 1929-1942.

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), Toledo Museum of Art.

$1200.
Rabbits and the Moon = 1931, Color Woodblock.

Signed Shoson with the artist’s red seal Shoson, lower left.

Image size 14 1/4 x 9 7/16 inches (362 x 240 mm); sheet size 15 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches ( 387 x 260 mm).

A very fine impression, with pronounced woodgrain and fresh colors, on cream wove Japan paper; gaufrage (embossing) in the rabbits fur, and fine bokashi (tonal gradation) in the sky and ground; in excellent condition. Published by Watanabe Shozaburo. The Watanabe 'C seal' in the lower right margin indicating a lifetime impression printed between 1929-1942.

Literature: Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson, Newland, Amy R.: Jan Perree & Robert Schaap, Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2001, pg. 202.

Collection: Toledo Museum of Art.

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