• Crows in moonlight (<i>Tsuki ni karasu</i> - 鴉二羽と月)
Crows in moonlight (<i>Tsuki ni karasu</i> - 鴉二羽と月)
Crows in moonlight (<i>Tsuki ni karasu</i> - 鴉二羽と月)
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Ohara Koson (小原古邨) / Shōson (祥邨) (artist 1877 – 1945)

Crows in moonlight (Tsuki ni karasu - 鴉二羽と月)

Print

1927
10.125 in x 15.25 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Shōson (祥邨)
Seal: Shōson
Publisher: Watanabe Shōzaburō
"Copyright Watanabe Shōzaburō"
hanken shoyū Watanabe Shōzaburō
版権所有 渡邊庄三郎
Centre Céramique de Maastricht
Rijksmuseum
Honolulu Museum of Art
Art Institute of Chicago
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo - in black and white There are other copies of this print in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art and the Museum Rietberg.

Illustrated:

1) This print is listed as #187 in Modern Japanese Prints by Dorothy Blair. It is illustrated with a small black and white image. The original printing was an edition of 200.

2) in color in Crows, Cranes and Camelias: the Natural World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945, p. 148.

3) in Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, p 222.

4) in black and white in 'The Reception of Ohara Koson’s kachōga in North America in the 1930s' (小原古邨の花鳥版画について : 1930年代のアメリカにおける受容を中心に), by Ihara Rieko (庵原理絵子), #1.
Watanabe Mokuhan Bujitsu Gahō (渡邊木版美術画舗) (publisher)
kachō-e (bird and flower picture - 花鳥絵) (genre)
modern prints (shin hanga - 新版画) (genre)
Shōwa era (昭和時代) (genre)