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Download free image of Flycatchers on a nandina bush (1925 - 1936) by Ohara Koson (1877-1945).

  • Koson Ohara (1877-1945) Japanese painter Set of two watercolour drawings on silk, nature scenes.
  • Koson Ohara (aka Shoson or Hoson) was a master of early 20th century kacho-e (bird-and-flower pictures).With meticulous detail, soft color, and a palpable.
  • Ohara Koson (1877–1945) was a Japanese woodblock print designer celebrated for his kacho-e (bird-and-flower) prints.
  • Ohara Shoson (Koson, Hoson) was a Japanese-style painter and printmaker.
  • Koson Ohara (aka Shoson or Hoson) was a master of early 20th century kacho-e (bird-and-flower pictures).With meticulous detail, soft color, and a palpable..

    Ohara Koson

    Japanese painter and printmaker

    In this Japanese name, the surname is Ohara.

    Ohara Koson (also Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) (Kanazawa 1877 – Tokyo 1945) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the forefront of shinsaku-hanga and shin-hanga art movements.[1]

    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.[2]

    Biography

    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-