KOSON -- "Wild Geese" (#2)

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Title "Wild Geese" (given name)
Date 1926
Series na
Publisher Watanabe Shozaburo
Seal, Carver/Printer "6-mm seal"
(used only 1946-57)
Image Size 9 3/8 x 14 1/4
Impression Very Fine. Superbly executed "bokashi" shading; light "gauffrage" (embossing) to feathers; highly detailed carving; crisp lines.
Condition Nearly Excellent.
Strong colors.
Very clean front and verso. (Very slight wrinkle upper/left margin--otherwise flawless. Drying-hole upper left corner.)
Reference/Illus Blair's 1930 "Toldedo Exhibition" pl. #180; "Crow, Cranes, and Camellias" pl. #S-11.5 and cat. #149.
Comments An early Koson image.
Item # CG-971
Price $425