Japanese plague bird - Ohara Koson - Vintage Art Card

Japanese plague bird on maple - Ohara Koson - Vintage Art - Blank Folded Greeting Card. Japanese plague bird on maple (1900 - 1936) by Ohara Koson (1877-1945). This image of the artwork has been carefully digitally enhanced to brighten and improve colors. Ohara Koson was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement. Ohara Koson (1877–1945), born in Kanazawa, northern Japan, was one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century. He was renowned for designing beautiful illustration prints of birds and flowers (kacho-e) as part of the Shin-Hanga (new prints) movement.