Cleveland Museum of Art
Dancing Fox
Ohara Koson
- Date
- 1900–1910s
- Medium
- Color woodcut
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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.
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