Ohno Bakufu "Swimming Carp"

A magnificient design showing a school of carp in a stream with flowering waterplants. Recreated from his famous series of fish and sea creature prints in the late 1930s, this early impression woodblock print is skillfully printed with a grey background and light gold ink to highlight the eyes of the fish.

Date: 1952
Size: Oban
Publisher: Kyoto Hanga-in/Shinagawa
Condition: Fine color and condition
Frame Shown: 16” x 24”, Modern Metal, Grey

Ohno Bakufu (1888-1976) was a painter who is well-regarded today for his still life and landscape themed woodblock prints. Best known for his "Great Japanese Fish Picture Collection" series produced in 1937-1941 in six volumes, of which the first editions are exceptionally rare, many of Bakufu's prints possess a distinctive style using vivid and rich colors.