Ohara Koson (小原古邨) / Shōson (祥邨) (artist 1877 – 1945)
Two white cockatoos on a red perch
ca 1939
10.625 in x 14.625 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Hōson (豊邨)
Publisher: Kawaguchi Bijutsusha
(Marks 229 - seal 25-023)
Seal in the lower right
Minneapolis Institute of Art - with a lighter green ground
National Museum of Asian Art This is one of two variant editions of this print produced by Kawaguchi. The other one lacks the arched red bar rising at the right. The carver was Itō, the printer Komatsu Wasankichi.
A variant example of this print is shown without the arched red bar on the right. It appears in a small, color reproduction on page 203, number H36.1, in Crows, Cranes & Camellias.
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Illustrated in a small color print in Asiatica, published by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2003, page 49.
modern prints (shin hanga - 新版画) (genre)
kachō-e (bird and flower picture - 花鳥絵) (genre)
Kawaguchi Bijutsusha (川口美術社) (publisher)
Shōwa era (昭和時代) (genre)