Prints
Dancing Fox
Woodblock Print
Details
- Author / creator
- Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877–1945)
- Object type
- Date or period
- 1900–1910s
- Acquisition method
- Donation
- Credit line
- Gift of Colonel James Thursby, 2016
- Paper / support
- Japanese paper
- State and impression
- Edition with grasses in the background.
- Catalogue raisonné
- Newland, Perree, and Schapp K41.15
About this object
In this whimsical Japanese color woodcut, a fox holds a giant green leaf on its head and dances on its hind legs in the rain. A prolific printmaker, Ohara Koson created hundreds of kachōga, a genre encompassing images of nature. Translating characteristics of traditional Japanese painting into color woodcuts, Koson depicted flowers, insects, fish, birds, and mammals. Dancing Fox is one of a few in which he imagined a lighthearted scenario.
Materials and technique
Color woodcut
Signature and marks
Signed and sealed by the artist
