An orange-faced songbird pecks at pink plum blossoms

A songbird with an orange face and breast, grey wings and a dark bill leans down from a slender branch to peck at a cluster of pink-and-white double plum blossoms. Smaller red buds and sprays of blossom continue along the branch against a plain pale grey-green ground. A brushed Koson signature and a red seal sit at the upper 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.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.