Kaoru Kawano - 丹頂 (Red-Crowned Crane)

Name: Kaoru Kawano - 丹頂 (Red-Crowned Crane)
Brand: Kumo Arts
Price: 180.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

£180.00

Modern | Sōsaku Hanga Woodblock Print

A fabulous print by Kaoru Kawano - 丹頂 (Red-Crowned Crane) depicting a crane standing beside a cluster of red lily pads. The bird’s abstract & rounded body is printed in mottled greys with visible woodgrain, and its red crown and white beak contrasts wonderfully against the black background. A simple, beautifully balanced design. 🕊️

Year & Edition: c.1950s-60s. Open edition. Artist’s red hanko, black seal verso.
Medium: Woodblock.
Dimensions: Paper approx. H 42.50 cm × W 28.50 cm. Image H 37.75 cm × W 23.50 cm.
Condition: Beautiful, unblemished image. Paper crisp & intact; faint fox spotting to margin.
Notes: 丹頂 (tancho) refers to the Japanese red-crowned crane, a species regularly depicted in Japanese art and associated with good fortune and longevity.

About the Artist

河野薫 Kaoru Kawano (1916-1965) was a postwar printmaker from Otaru, Hokkaido, known for his charming stylised child figures, northern birds, owls, and the distinctive use of woodgrain in his prints. Trained under Narita Gyokusen and later at the Kawabata Art School in Tokyo, he resumed his career after wartime service and prisoner internment in Siberia, exhibiting with the Japan Print Association (日本版画協会) and Kokugakai (国画会), and receiving the Kokuga Prize in 1955. Through Yoseido Gallery his work was shown widely in international print exhibitions, and both his pencil-signed and seal-stamped editions are increasingly collected today. [ ← View All Works by Kaoru Kawano]