Ohara Koson (小原古邨) / Shōson (祥邨) (artist 1877 – 1945)
Cawing Crow
ca 1925
10.5 in x 17.325 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Koson (古邨)
The National Museum of Asian Art - signed with the artist's seal - published by Yosaku Nishinomiya
Princeton University
Rijksmuseum - signed but without the artist's seal - an Adachi Toyohisa publication Illustrated: In Crows, Cranes & Camellias by Amy Reigle Newland, Jan Perrée and Robert Schaap, Hotei Publishing, 2001. It shows a small color reproduction of this print on page 142. The text says that it is an "Adachi Toyohisa reprint originally published by Nishinomiya Yosaku". It goes on to note: "A jungle crow (Corvus macrorhynchos) caws from its place on a snow-covered branch. Like the magpie, the crow is a passerine and gregarious songbird. It is recognisable by its heavy bill, glossy black plumage and rounded winds. The print was issued by Nishinomiya, and it could very well represent an adaptation made by the publisher of an earlier Daikokuya print. Examples of this print are known with Nishinomiya's name in the margin."
There is another copy of a late edition in the Museum Rietberg.
modern prints (shin hanga - 新版画) (genre)
kachō-e (bird and flower picture - 花鳥絵) (genre)