Wild Geese
- Date:
- 1920
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
Description
"Wild Geese," from 1920, is an early and unusual landscape subject in Kobayakawa's primarily figure-focused career, depicting wild geese — a bird deeply embedded in Japanese poetry as a symbol of migration, longing, and seasonal passage. In classical waka poetry, wild geese flying in formation were associated with messages from afar and the melancholy of autumn. This early work demonstrates Kobayakawa's grounding in traditional Japanese aesthetic subjects before he developed his distinctive modernist bijin-ga vision.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Wild Geese was created by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清) in 1920.
Wild Geese was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1920).
Wild Geese depicts birds & flowers, landscapes, and moonlight.