Two geese beat across a misty marsh sky

Two geese fly low over a misty marsh, wings raised and orange feet tucked beneath grey-brown plumage; the paler goose leads with its beak open. More geese, small and faint, follow higher in the pale sky. Reeds and a patch of still water are visible below through the mist. The signature Shōson and a red seal appear at lower right.

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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