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The lives, circles and cities behind the paintings

Japanese1877–1945

Ohara Koson

A Japanese painter and woodblock print designer from Kanazawa, at the forefront of the shinsaku-hanga and shin-hanga movements. A master of bird-and-flower prints, he made around five hundred designs under three different names.

A life in paintings

  1. 1877
    Born
  2. 1933
  3. 1945
    Died

Where to see them

Multiple institutional collections

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