Havik jagend op haas
1900 - 1910
Ohara Koson was a master of kacho-e (bird-and-flower prints), and this dramatic scene shows exactly why his work was so popular in the West. A fierce hawk dives through a storm of diagonal rain lines, its eyes locked on a terrified white hare scrambling through the tall grass below. Created during the early 20th century Shin-hanga movement, Koson revived traditional Japanese woodblock printing by blending it with Western realism. It's a perfect freeze-frame of nature's raw survival instinct, capturing the terrifying split second before the strike.
- Technique
- Woodblock print
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