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Source Description
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 <em>kachōga</em>, 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.
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Document identity
localId
293239
label
Dancing Fox
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obj
dtoType
print
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1
Source metadata
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293239
contentType
print
title
Dancing Fox
description
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 <em>kachōga</em>, 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.
date
1900–1910s
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79865516
creators
48270
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Print
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1
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import
accession
2016.546
Source extras
tec
Color woodcut
tombstone
Dancing Fox, 1900–1910s. Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877–1945). Color woodcut. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Delbert Gutridge, CMA Registrar 1968-1996, 2016.546
collection
Japanese Art
editionOfTheWork
Edition with grasses in the background.
inscriptions
inscription
Signed and sealed by the artist
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1
citations
citation
Newland, Amy Reigle, Jan Perrée, and Robert Schaap. <em>Crows, Cranes & Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945 Japanese Prints from the Jan Perrée Collection</em>. Leiden: Hotei Pub, 2001.
page_number
p. 191, no. K41.15
catalogueRaisonne
Newland, Perree, and Schapp K41.15
creditline
Gift in honor of Delbert Gutridge, CMA Registrar 1968-1996
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2026-05-29 08:52:17.272000
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293239
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Japanese Art
coll
Japanese Art
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Color woodcut
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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