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Ohara Koson
Ohara Koson

Ohara Koson

Japanese, 1877-1945
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Ohara Koson was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement.

Ohara Koson was famous as a master of kachō-e (bird-and-flower) designs. Throughout a prolific career, in which he created around 500 prints, he went by three different titles: Ohara Hōson (小原豊邨), Ohara Shōson (小原祥邨) and Ohara Koson.

He was born Ohara Matao; it is thought that he started training in painting and design at the Ishikawa Prefecture Technical School in 1889–1893. He also studied painting with Suzuki Kason (1860–1919), although accounts differ on whether this happened during his school years or after he moved to Tokyo in the middle to late 1890s.

In Tokyo, he produced some ukiyo-e triptychs illustrating episodes of the Russo-Japanese War, but most of his production was prints of birds-and-flowers (kachō-e). He worked at first with publishers Akiyama Buemon (Kokkeidō) and Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya), signing his work Koson. Starting around 1926, he became associated with the publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō, and signed his work Shōson. He also worked with the publisher Kawaguchi, signing his works Hōson.

Through his association with Watanabe, Ohara's work was exhibited abroad, and his prints sold well, particularly in the United States. He was active designing prints until at least 1935, and died at his home in Tokyo in 1945.

His work is held in several museums worldwide, including the Toledo Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the British Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Harvard Art Museums, the Rijksmuseum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Museum of New Zealand, the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and the Clark Art Institute.

The Manggha museum in Krakow, Poland held a large retrospective in 2021 from the collection of Romanian musical artist Adrian Ciceu, brother of Eugen Cicero.

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Flowering wisteria

Flowering wisteria

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Botanical
Fishing Boats

Fishing Boats (1900 - 1920)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Cockatoo And Pomegranate

Cockatoo And Pomegranate (20th Century)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Common And Golden Carp

Common And Golden Carp (1935)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Flying Geese

Flying Geese (1926)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
White Chinese Geese Swimming By Reeds

White Chinese Geese Swimming By Reeds (1928)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Flowering Azalea In Blue Pot

Flowering Azalea In Blue Pot

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Still Life
Umbrellas in Snow

Umbrellas in Snow (1931)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Umbrellas in Snow

Umbrellas in Snow (1931)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
A Pair of Pheasants on Snowy Branches

A Pair of Pheasants on Snowy Branches

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Deer Under the Moon

Deer Under the Moon

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Flying Quail Under the Moon

Flying Quail Under the Moon

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Mandarin Ducks on Water

Mandarin Ducks on Water

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Scops Owl, Cherry Blossoms, and Moon

Scops Owl, Cherry Blossoms, and Moon

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Skylark in flight above blossoming peach

Skylark in flight above blossoming peach (circa 1931)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Cockatoo and pomegranate

Cockatoo and pomegranate

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Geese flying over reed

Geese flying over reed (circa 1926)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Mallards and lotus under snow

Mallards and lotus under snow (circa 1936)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Two manchurian great tits in flight above begonia

Two manchurian great tits in flight above begonia (circa 1929)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
Yanagibashi no yuki (Snow on the Willow Bridge)

Yanagibashi no yuki (Snow on the Willow Bridge) (1927)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
Asian Art
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