A pheasant pair descends a snowy slope

A male pheasant with a dark green head, red facial wattle and a long barred tail descends a snowy slope, his gold-and-crimson scalloped plumage catching the light. A smaller, plainer brown-and-cream female stands further up the slope, a line of footprints behind her, beneath a snow-laden pine bough at the top edge. The sky graduates from soft pink to pale yellow. The artist's early signature, Koson, and a red seal sit at upper 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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