Cockatoo and Pomegranate - Ohara Koson Art Print
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Ohara Koson's Cockatoo and Pomegranate catches a chalk-white cockatoo mid-squawk, slate-blue beak open on a shell-pink tongue. One claw grips the ash-gray branch. The other lifts to its chest, a small fist of scales held against scalloped feathers. Behind it, lamp-black ink swallows every hint of garden and hour.
Kanazawa-born Koson trained under Suzuki Kason in the Nihonga manner before turning to kachō-e, the old Japanese bird-and-flower genre. He knew what he was pairing. In Buddhist temples Kishimojin holds a pomegranate for its countless seeds, a promise of children and luck. Cockatoos reached Japan as cargo on Dutch ships at Nagasaki, and Itō Jakuchū painted these prized imports in eighteenth-century Kyoto. So a ship-borne bird ignores a sacred fruit against a jet-ink sky, early Shōwa wit served cold.
At lower left a split pomegranate shows its crimson rind and wet rows of seed. The cockatoo looks the other way. Above the vermilion seal a single coral bud waits on its twig, one held note in a loud room. Hang this vintage Japanese woodblock art print where guests gather, and let the uneaten seeds keep everyone guessing who gets fed.
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