Two women pause in the rain beneath paper umbrellas

Two women stand in slanting rain beneath a large orange-and-white paper umbrella and a green one, one turning to glance back over her shoulder. One wears a violet kimono shading to pale blue with a wave pattern at the hem; the other a black kimono with a red lining. Trailing willow branches and two swallows in flight fill the upper half of the composition, with a faint temple skyline across the water in the distance. The signature Shōson and a red seal appear at 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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