Ohara Shōson Boxed Notes

$20.95 at Seattle Art Museum.

Twenty assorted note cards (5 each of 4 designs) featuring the artwork of Ohara Shōson Printed on recycled paper, assorted images on 5 x 7 inch cards, blank inside with envelopes.  Comes in a decorative box featuring Plum Blossoms and Bullfinch on the cover. Ohara Shōson’s bird-and-flower works, kacho-e, established him as a master of Japanese nature prints. Kacho-e subjects, along with other prints of the time, were better received by Western collectors than at home. Two seminal exhibitions at the Toledo…