A crested waxwing perches among red and orange maple leaves.

A crested waxwing, its head tipped with a black eye-mask and a soft buff body, perches on a bare grey branch amid clusters of red and orange maple leaves. Its folded wing shows fine black-and-white barring with a small red spot, and its tail ends in a rust-orange band. The pale ground is otherwise bare. The signature 'Koson' appears in black at lower left above a red seal.

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.