A white egret stands in shallow water beside tall reeds

A white egret stands in profile in shallow water, its long dark bill and dark eye sharply defined, a single wispy plume trailing from the back of its head. Yellow-green legs meet the water's soft grey ripples, and tall green reed blades rise beside the bird at the right. The signature 'Koson' in black sits above a red round seal at the 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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