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Stars over Biwa Lake - Shoda Koho Art Print

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Fine Art Prints

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Forget cheap reproductions and printable posters. Only the best will do.

Velvety matte fine art paper (warm white, archival-grade, 200gsm) with bold, vibrant, non-toxic pigment inks. High-definition print lab techniques give you sharper details, deeper saturation and true-to-life tones. While the matte surface keeps glare down and archival-grade materials mean the colors you fall for stay vivid for decades.

Framed Fine Art Prints

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Your print arrives framed and ready to hang, so it goes straight from the box to your wall.

Chevron cut wooden frames make a timeless statement in three distinctive colors: black, white and natural. Each frame is made of sustainably sourced FSC® certified knotless pine. And your artwork is protected behind ultra-clear perspex glaze that’s lighter than glass and shatter-resistant.

Float Framed Canvas Prints

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Luscious artist-grade cotton canvas, hand-stretched and finely textured, gives every detail depth and precision, catching light and color with striking clarity. While a precisely measured floating frame leaves a slim gap around the canvas, so it seems to hover with a sleek, gallery-worthy effect. Finished with your choice of frame color — black, white or natural — made from sustainably sourced FSC® certified knotless pine.

Giclée Printing

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Forget 4 color CMYK. Giclée layers up to 12 — alive with deeper shadows, richer highlights and multidimensional contrasts. Pro-lab printing process helps art stay bold & breathtaking for up to 100 years. And the neo-pigment, water-based inks are 100% non-hazardous and toxin-free.

About the Artwork

 

Stars over Biwa Lake gathers a whole 1930 night into one glowing paper lantern. Koho Shoda sets it on the deck of a flat-bottomed boat, and its persimmon glow drips into the water as a broken ladder of light. A figure stands at the stern. The raised pole tilts upward like a question asked of the pine.

That pine owns the sky. Japanese black pine needles bristle in soot-black clusters, carved into the keyblock one patient chisel stroke at a time. Above them, dozens of chalk-white stars prick a slate indigo heaven. Bokashi gradation lets the dark pool downward. A sesame-grain texture pressed by the baren gives Lake Biwa its faint shiver.

Across the water a stilted pavilion holds vermilion lanterns, their reflections quivering like struck matches. This shin-hanga woodblock print carries the Eight Views of Omi into early Showa Japan. A seated passenger faces the far shore without a word. Hang this Japanese art print, and that meditative silence becomes yours to ponder.

Origin Story

Shōda Kōhō (1877–1924) was a Japanese Nihonga painter, shin-hanga woodblock print artist and Kyōka poet of the Meiji and Taishō eras. Born Shōda Kan in Kanda, Tokyo, he trained under Ogata Gekkō in figure painting and bijin-ga, then drew illustrations for the Chūō Shimbun. A bronze medal at the first Bunten exhibition in 1907 marked his arrival.


For Hasegawa-Nishinomiya he designed lakeside moons, great bridges at night and Shitamachi scenes, contributing to the Night Scenes series: twenty-one chūban prints steeped in hushed sepia or blue. With Yoshimoto Gessō, he bent his compositions to fit narrow tanzaku pillar prints. Around thirty he withdrew, trading brush for satire as the Kyōka poet Unnoya Hachisuke. Overlooked for decades, he resurfaced when collector Robert O. Muller published his works in 2003, and his moonlit prints became an archetype of the Japanese landscape.

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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.

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Velvety matte art paper
Heavyweight 200gsm fine art paper. Smooth, clean finish. Naturally white tone. Acid-free to resist yellowing and deterioration.
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Chevron-cut frame made from solid FSC®-certified sustainable wood. Ultra-clear Perspex glazing. Delivered ready to hang.
3 framing styles
Framed art prints can be shipped with no border, a slim border, or set in a classic acid-free mat. Museum-quality, however you style it.

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Alive with multidimensional shadows, highlights and contrasts

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Artist-grade cotton canvas
38mm cotton canvas, ideal for photography, reproductions and impactful graphics. Luxurious, matte surface delivers depth and detail with outstanding clarity.
Premium float frames
The thin frame sits slightly away from the edge of the canvas, creating an elegant, gallery-worthy floating border.
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Canvas stretched over FSC®-certified, knot-free European pine. Milled with a curved profile to prevent pressure marks and surface cracks.

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