Great Tit on Paulownia Branch - Ohara Koson Art Print
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Japan writes this bird's name, shijūkara, with the characters for forty sparrows. An old saying prices one tit at that many.
Ohara Koson's Great Tit on Paulownia Branch shows why. The little acrobat swings upside down on a cocoa-brown runner, blue-gray claws locked, tail flicked at the sky. Ultramarine wing feathers lie barred in sumi ink and edged in ivory. A black hood frames one pale cheek, and the beak points down at empty paper.
Overhead, autumn burns slowly. Vermilion leaves crowd the top of the tall ōban sheet and thin to apricot where the printer wiped the color away. Indigo berries cluster among them. Poets call this fall color tsuta momiji, the scarlet ivy that overruns the mountain pass in The Tales of Ise.
Koson designed the scene between 1925 and 1936 for publisher Watanabe, whose shin-hanga, or new prints, shipped from Tokyo to collectors in America. Half the washi stays bare, pale as oat milk.
Give this Japanese bird art print a quiet wall. In kachō-e, the bird-and-flower tradition, autumn lasts one afternoon, and this one refuses to end.
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1. Vertical
Use the sawtooth hanger at the top middle on the back of the frame and hang it on a single screw or nail.
2. Horizontal
Hang the two sawtooth hangers on two screws or nails at the same heightPut two screws or nails in the wall at the same height, spaced the same distance apart as the two sawtooth hangers, then hang your print on them.
Framed Canvas
1. D-rings (most secure)
Screw a D-ring onto the back of the frame on the left and right, both at the same height. A ruler helps here. Then put two screws in the wall where you want your canvas, level with each other and spaced the same distance apart as the D-rings. A spirit level makes this easier. Finally, hook the D-rings onto the screws.
2. Straight onto screws
Keep it simple: put two screws in the wall at the same height and rest the inner lip at the top of the back of the frame on them.
1. Cost
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2. Produced on Demand
Printed after you purchase at print labs across the USA, UK, EU & AUS. Produced, quality checked, packed with care and handed to trusted shipping carriers within 72-96 hours on average.
3. Production + Shipping =
USA: 4-9 days • Canada: 5-12 days • UK: 4-9 days • EU: 5-10 days • AUS: 4-9 days • NZ: 5-12 days • Rest of the world: 3-4 weeks
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