Shin-hanga
Videos
Shin-hanga was an art movement in early 20th-century Japan, during the Taishō and Shōwa periods, that revitalized the traditional ukiyo-e art rooted in the Edo and Meiji periods. It maintained the tra
Yokugo no onna (Woman at Her Bath), by Hashiguchi Goyō (published Feb. 1916). One of the first shin-hanga published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Hikari umi (Glittering Sea), by Hiroshi Yoshida (1926)
Shiba Zōjōji, by Kawase Hasui (1925)
Two Cockatoos on Plum Blossom Tree, by Ohara Koson (c. 1925–1935)
Ohara Koson
Videos
Ohara Koson was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the forefront of shinsaku-hanga and shin-hanga art movements.
Shin-hanga
…ultimately provided the financial stability to Watanabe to nurture the shin-hanga movement. The best known shinsaku-hanga artists were Takahashi Shōtei, Ohara Koson, Ito Sozan, and Narazaki Eisho. Each of these artists later moved to shin-hanga. Arai Yoshimune…
Ohara Koson, around the age of 53
Blue irises, 1900–1930, Rijksmuseum.
Wagtail and Lotus, between 1912 and 1918, woodblock print, 37.7 × 16.4 cm. Brooklyn Museum
Cawing crow, c. 1900s