About This Print
Originally issued in 1926, this collection's print is a later edition c. 1946-1957.Catalogue Raisonné
Source: Modern Japanese Prints, Dorothy Blair, re-print of the 1931 and 1936 exhibition catalogues, The Toledo Museum of Art, 1997, figure 174.
HERONS IN REEDS (Ashi ni Sagi)
Two white herons and blue grey pool. Feathers outlined in gray; gray legs, yellow and black claws and eyes; yellow, black and yellow-green beaks. Wind-blown reeds in two tones of gray on blank above, and sky graded from light blue to gray-blue; white crescent moon. Signed “Shoson”; also his seal. Edition, 200 impressions1; issued in 1926. 14 ¼” x 9 3/8”
1 As is noted in Crows, Cranes & Camellias the edition of size of 200 only reflects the edition size up to 1931 when the first Toledo exhibition was held. Many later editions of this print are known.
Print Details
last revision:
Crows, Cranes & Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945
S14.4 (cat. 155)
One of twenty-one prints by Koson that were shown in the first shin hanga exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1930.
HERONS IN REEDS (Ashi ni Sagi)
Two white herons and blue grey pool. Feathers outlined in gray; gray legs, yellow and black claws and eyes; yellow, black and yellow-green beaks. Wind-blown reeds in two tones of gray on blank above, and sky graded from light blue to gray-blue; white crescent moon. Signed “Shoson”; also his seal. Edition, 200 impressions1; issued in 1926. 14 ¼” x 9 3/8”
1 As is noted in Crows, Cranes & Camellias the edition of size of 200 only reflects the edition size up to 1931 when the first Toledo exhibition was held. Many later editions of this print are known.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #15 |
| Title | Herons in Reeds (Ashi ni Sagi) |
| Series | |
| Artist | Ohara Koson (1877 - 1945) |
| Signature |  |
| Seal | Shōson 祥邨, in seal script (see above) |
| Date | originally issued 1926 |
| Edition | Later edition (c. 1946-1957) with black circular 6 mm Watanabe type-I seal in lower right hand corner of image. |
| Publisher |  ワタナベ [Watanabe] Watanabe "A-type" 6mm round seal |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Genre | shin-hanga (new prints) |
| Format | oban-tate |
| H x W Paper | 15 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (38.7 x 26 cm) |
| H x W Image | 14 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (36.2 x 24.1 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.71.100.129 (no edition noted) and M.2000.105.145 (no edition noted); Smithsonian Institution Arthur M. Sackler Gallery S2003.8.2046 (first edition with Watanabe type-B seal); Toledo Museum of Art 1930, no. 174 (Watanabe type-B seal) |
| Reference Literature | CatalogueRaisonné: Crows, Cranes & Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson1877-1945, Amy Reigle Newland, Jan Perrée, Robert Schaap, HoteiPublishing, 2001, S14.4 (cat. 155); Printed to Perfection - Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, Mervis, Newland, et. al., Hotei Publishing, 2004, p. 55, pl. 30; Modern Japanese Prints, Dorothy Blair, re-print of the 1931 and 1936exhibition catalogs, The Toledo Museum of Art, 1997, figure 174; Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, Carol M. Putney, et. al., Toledo Museum of Art, 2014, Cat. 181, p. 214; Catalogue of Wood-Cut Colour Prints of S. Watanabe, 1936, p. 97, cat. O2 titled "Herons and Reeds (under the Crescent)" |
5/28/2020
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