Blue-and-white flycatchers visit a snowy nandina bush

Two blue-and-white flycatchers visit a snow-dusted nandina bush hung with heavy clusters of red berries. One bird perches quietly at upper left; the other swoops in below with wings fully spread, reaching toward the berries with its beak. Light snow dusts the green leaves and bare stems, with a few flakes falling through the grey ground. The artist's signature and a red seal appear at lower left, beside a small round emblem.

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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