{"product_id":"crow-and-full-moon-ohara-koson-japanese-woodblock-print","title":"Crow and Full Moon · Ohara Koson · Japanese Woodblock Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrow 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\"Crow 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\u003eKoson's crows are among his most sought-after designs: a single black bird against snow or a pale sky, drawn with the economy of a brush painting.\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. Made to order on heavyweight cotton-fibre archival paper and sold at a single size, mounted with an equal border all round and framed in-house.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohara Koson","offers":[{"title":"23cm x 43cm","offer_id":55495128023381,"sku":"KOSON016-M-23X43","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_c75057b0-278b-4f75-8c84-d5c29044714e.jpg?v=1792796136","url":"https:\/\/theposteredit.com\/products\/crow-and-full-moon-ohara-koson-japanese-woodblock-print","provider":"The Poster Edit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}