Japan Art and Birds: Blue Tit, Kingfisher, Mejiro, and Owl

Japan Art and Birds: Blue Tit, Kingfisher, Mejiro, and Owl

Lee Jay Walker

Modern Tokyo Times

All four art pieces focus on birds – this concerns the blue tit, kingfisher, mejiro (white-eye), and owl. However, the artists come from different periods. Hence, the art above is by the contemporary artist Sawako Utsumi.

The other two artists were born during the revolutionary Meiji Period (1868-1912). This applies to Ohara Koson (1877-1945), who also used the names Ohara Hōson and Ohara Shōson ...