Cuckoo in Storm by Ohara Koson, 1925 Size:16x36in (40x90cm) prized for their exquisite surfaces

prized for their exquisite surfaces

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Cuckoo in Storm by Ohara Koson, 1925 Size:16x36in (40x90cm) prized for their exquisite surfacesCuckoo in Storm by Ohara Koson (1925) is a luminous example of early 20thcentury Japanese woodblock printmaking at its most poetic. A leading figure of the shin hanga revival, Koson transforms a fleeting glimpse of nature into an elegant meditation on weather, movement, and silence. A lone cuckoo crosses a storm darkened sky, its streamlined silhouette set against sweeping atmosphere and carefully placed negative spacean heir to Ukiyo e aesthetics