Stars over Biwa Lake - Shoda Koho Art Print

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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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