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A night heron perches on a gnarled grey branch that sweeps in from the left, its fluffed white breast set against slate-blue wings and a dark crown, a yellow bill pointing left and fine white plumes trailing from the back of its head. Its orange-yellow feet grip the bark where the branch turns up into a twisting trunk at the right, among fine grey leafy twigs. The artist’s signature and a round red seal sit at the lower right, with a small grey publisher’s seal at the corner.
The original: a colour woodblock print by Ohara Koson, published by Akiyama Buemon, Tokyo, 1900–1910. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Ohara Koson (1877–1945) was the leading bird-and-flower (kachō-ga) artist of the shin-hanga movement. Trained in Kanazawa and Tokyo in the Shijō painting tradition, he designed prints from around 1900, first for export publishers and from 1926 for Watanabe Shōzaburō under the name Shōson. Herons in snow, crows on a branch, goldfish and sparrows are drawn with a naturalist’s precision and printed with soft gradations and embossed feathers. His prints are held by the Rijksmuseum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.
