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SHOSON Ohara (KOSON) (1877-1945)
Egret in the Rain. 1928
- Category
- Japanese | 20th Century
- Publisher
- Watanabe Shôzaburô.
oban tate-e, 26.0 cm × 36.8 cm
Very good, early impression with green colouring on the beak and Watanabe 'sausage' seal lower right. Very good colour and clean condition.
A small egret caught in a heavy downpour. The white plumage of the bird is rendered in beautiful gauffrage (blind printing), in stark contrast to the black background and bold parallel white lines of 'Hiroshige rain'. Signed Shoson Seal Shoson.
Note: The gauffrage is unusual in this copy, in that there is a barely visible but uniform pattern that runs down the breast of the egret. Hard to say if this is a printing flaw or an attractive anomaly but I have not seen it on other impressions!
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