Vine and Japanese Bunting

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Vine and Japanese Bunting

Artist Ohara Shoson (Japanese, 1877-1945)

Publisher Watanabe Shozaburo (1885-1962)

DatePublished in 1934

Dimensionsoverall: 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (39.3 x 26.7 cm)

Mediumcolor woodblock print

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Hubert D. Bennett

Object number

1939.459

Not on View

Label TextThe vibrant autumn leaves of the paulownia tree beautifully set off the dominant blue and white of the Japanese Tit, also called the Eastern Great Tit. Leaves of the paulownia have been symbols of the Imperial family of Japan for thousands of years.Exhibition HistoryToledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Modern Japanese Prints: Woodblock Prints by Ten Artists, The Work of the Past Five Years, January 1936, repr. pl. 193.

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