A bird hangs from cascading wisteria, eyeing a spider below

A dark blue-black bird with a white flank patch hangs head-down from a cascading spray of lilac wisteria blossoms, its short bill lowered and its long tail curving up behind it. A spider hangs on a fine thread far below, with the faint lines of a web drawn at the upper left. Broad green leaves and the wisteria vine fill the upper part of the sheet against a plain warm-grey ground.

Ohara Koson (1877–1945) was the leading bird-and-flower (kachō-ga) artist of the shin-hanga movement. Trained in Kanazawa and Tokyo in the Shijō painting tradition, he designed prints from around 1900, first for export publishers and from 1926 for Watanabe Shōzaburō under the name Shōson. Herons in snow, crows on a branch, goldfish and sparrows are drawn with a naturalist's precision and printed with soft gradations and embossed feathers. His prints are held by the Rijksmuseum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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