{"product_id":"crossbill-on-a-branch-ohara-koson-japanese-woodblock-print","title":"Crossbill on a Branch · Ohara Koson · Japanese Woodblock Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrossbill on a Branch\u003c\/strong\u003e - a Japanese colour woodblock print by Ohara Koson, master of the bird-and-flower print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Crossbill on a Branch\", 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\u003eKoson's small birds are drawn among the blossom, snow and branches of the Japanese seasons, each print a single quiet moment.\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. Each print is made to order on cotton-fibre archival paper, then mounted with a wide even border and hand-framed in our workshop rather than sent out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohara Koson","offers":[{"title":"23cm x 43cm","offer_id":55495133561173,"sku":"KOSON022-M-23X43","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_10176e95-f334-4538-b73f-8d228f693601.jpg?v=1792796193","url":"https:\/\/theposteredit.com\/en-us\/products\/crossbill-on-a-branch-ohara-koson-japanese-woodblock-print","provider":"The Poster Edit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}