Interesting article on the #JohnRylandsLibrary blog, all about #woodblocks, #woodblockprints and #JohnBagford
https://rylandscollections.com/2023/03/14/experimenting-with-print/

@Lost_World

Those villages along the old #Tōkaidō route are a delight to visit. It’s like #timetravel into one of those #woodblockprints.

' Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki) and Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus)', a ca. 1910s woodblock print, 19.5 x 37.5 cm in size, by Ohara Koson (小原 古邨, 1877-1945), a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who was part of the shin-hanga (new prints) art movement.

Ohara Koson was famous as a master of kachō-e (bird and flower) designs.

#JapaneseArt #WoodblockPrints #OharaKoson