A white puppy barks up at another perched on a crate

A grey-and-black puppy stands on the corner of a wooden crate, seen from behind with its curled tail visible, while a white puppy with black-tipped ears peeks over the crate's edge, mouth open and one paw raised onto the rim. Loose brush lines suggest grass in the background. The Koson signature is brushed in black ink 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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