A brown songbird looks up at a white camellia bloom

A brown bird with dark speckled plumage perches on a slender branch, its head raised toward a large white camellia flower with yellow stamens above. Near-black glossy camellia leaves surround it, with a half-open white bud and a smaller bud wrapped in green sepals at the left. The ground is left plain. The artist's brush signature and two brown seals sit 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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