A night heron stands on a snowy stump among bending reeds

A black-crowned night heron stands on one leg on a snow-capped stump, its dark green crown and back set against white underparts, with a thin white plume trailing from its head. Snow lies thickly along the reeds bending around it, under a grey sky above dark blue water. The heron's red eye and long yellowish bill are picked out in fine detail, its yellow foot gripping the snowy perch. The signature Hōson and a seal are at lower left.

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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