"Kin-gyo" (Goldfish) by Ohara KOSON (1877-1945). Excellent impression, nice "bokashi" shading, highly detailed, strong crisp lines. Never framed. Pristine condition. Lightly embossed with gold colored metallic pigment. Hand printed upon hand-made mulberry paper and with full margins. Signed in the block by Koson with both his "Shoson" signature and red artist's seal to the lower right. First published in 1926. Paper size is 10 and 1/4 wide by 15 and 1/4 high. Watanabe round 7 mm seal hand applied in lower right and red "Heisei" seal in left margin. This is a later printing from original wooden blocks.
 
The most famous Shin Hanga designer of bird and flower prints, Ohara Koson (1877-1945) studied Shijo school painting under Susuki Kason. Shortly after 1900 he accepted a teaching position at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. Koson's art came to the attention of Ernest Fenollosa, an important Japanese scholar and Curator of Japanese Art for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Under Fenollosa's encouragement, Koson began exhibiting both his paintings and woodcuts in the United States. Most of his earlier woodcuts were published in Tokyo by either Kokkeido or Daikokuya. In 1912 Koson changed his artist's name to Shoson. For approximately the next fourteen years he dedicated himself primarily to painting. In 1926, however, the great Japanese publisher, Watanabe Shozaburo, convinced the artist to create woodcuts in both oban and otanzaku sizes. These original woodcuts are notable for their use of much brighter and more vibrant colors than his earlier prints.


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