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Wisteria and Swallows

Artist Ohara Shoson Japanese, 1877-1945

Date1926

Dimensionsoverall: 10 1/4 x 15 1/4 in. (26 x 38.7 cm)

Mediumcolor woodblock print

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Hubert D. Bennett

Object number

1939.261

Not on View

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Works on Paper

Published ReferencesPutney, Carolyn M., Kendall H. Brown, Koyama Shuko, and Paul Binnie, Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2013. repr. (col.) pp. 215.Exhibition HistoryToledo, Toledo Museum of Art, A Special Exhibition of Modern Japanese Prints, March 2-- March 30, 1930, repr. pl. 177.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, For the Birds, April 13-October 14, 2012.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, October 4, 2013-January 1, 2014.

Label TextBarn swallows are seen as auspicious symbols in Japan and they herald the coming of summer. They typically nest on house walls and are thought to bring the homeowners health and prosperity. For this reason their nests are protected and the birds’ return to the same nesting sites encouraged.