Ohara Koson
Ohara
Koson
(1877-1945)
was
a
Japanese
painter
and
printmaker
of
the
shin-hanga
(“new
prints”)
movement.
Shin-hanga
was
an
early
20th
century
revival
of
traditional
ukiyo-e
art
in
which
the
artist,
carver,
and
printer
played
distinctly
separate
but
unified
roles,
as
opposed
to
sosaku-hanga
(“creative
prints”),
in
which
the
artist
performs
all
roles
and
is
the
sole
creator
of
the
work.
Koson
moved
to
Tokyo
in
the
late
1890s,
eventually
becoming
a
teacher
at
the
Tokyo
School
of
Fine
Arts.
In
1905,
he
began
practicing
woodblock
printing,
and
in
time
began
exporting
his
prints
to
American
collectors
through
Ernest
Fenollosa,
curator... Read More
of
Japanese
Art
at
the
Museum
of
Fine
Arts,
Boston.
While
designing
many
genre
landscapes
and
Russo-Japanese
Wars
prints,
Koson
was
most
known
for
his
kacho-e
(bird-and-flower)
prints.
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