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Dancing Fox
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About this work
In this whimsical Japanese color woodcut, a fox holds a giant green leaf on its head and dances on its hind legs in the rain. A prolific printmaker, Ohara Koson created hundreds of kachōga , a genre encompassing images of nature. Translating characteristics of traditional Japanese painting into color woodcuts, Koson depicted flowers, insects, fish, birds, and mammals. Dancing Fox is one of a few in which he imagined a lighthearted scenario.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineDancing Fox, 1900–1910s. Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877–1945). Color woodcut. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Delbert Gutridge, CMA Registrar 1968-1996, 2016.546
