{"product_id":"heron-and-full-moon-ohara-koson-japanese-woodblock-print","title":"Heron and Full Moon · Ohara Koson · Japanese Woodblock Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeron and Full Moon\u003c\/strong\u003e - a Japanese colour woodblock print by Ohara Koson, master of the bird-and-flower print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Heron and Full Moon\", a colour woodblock print by Ohara Koson, c. 1900, from the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, printed in the tall narrow format Koson used for many of his single-bird designs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHerons and egrets were one of Koson's favourite subjects, standing in rain or reeds or flying past the moon, their white plumage left as bare paper against soft grey grounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOhara Koson (1877-1945) was the leading designer of kacho-e, the Japanese \"bird-and-flower\" print, in the first half of the twentieth century. Trained as a painter, he designed hundreds of prints of birds in snow, rain and moonlight, many of them made for collectors in Europe and America. From 1926 he worked with the Tokyo publisher Watanabe Shozaburo, leader of the shin-hanga movement, signing his prints Shoson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach print is a Japanese colour woodblock: the design was cut into a separate block of cherry wood for every colour and printed by hand with water-based pigments on mulberry paper, the printer wiping the block to give the soft graded skies and falling snow that are Koson's signature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrepared from a high-resolution scan of an original woodblock impression, keeping the soft colour gradations and the texture of the paper. Printed on archival cotton-fibre paper when your order is placed, and mounted with a border of equal width on every side so the plate sits centred in the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohara Koson","offers":[{"title":"23cm x 43cm","offer_id":55495124549973,"sku":"KOSON013-M-23X43","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_d94d9f7b-a44a-4fc4-9a42-aaef56976b5c.jpg?v=1792796110","url":"https:\/\/theposteredit.com\/en-intl\/products\/heron-and-full-moon-ohara-koson-japanese-woodblock-print","provider":"The Poster Edit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}