Rice Planting in Rain
by Bakufu Ohno (1888-1976)

	Artist:	Bakufu Ohno (1888-1976) — 大野麦風
	Title:	Rice Planting in Rain
	Series:
	Date of first edition?:	1950-1953
	Publisher (first edition)?:	Kyoto Hanga-In — 京都版画院
	Publisher (this edition)?:	Kyoto Hanga-In — 京都版画院
	Medium (first edition):	Woodblock
	Medium (this edition):	Woodblock
	Format (first edition):	Not Set
	Format (this edition):	Not Set
	DB artwork code:	31759
	Notes (first edition)?:	Title from a July 1956 Kyoto Hanga-In catalogue.
	Notes (this edition)?:	The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies: Monday, 4 July 2005 Rice Planting (Variant 2) by Ohno Bafuku Rice Planting is a wonderfully detailed glimpse of peasant agricultural life. You can tell it is not modern farming by the grass rain-gear that the person driving the water buffalo is wearing. There are tiny baby rice plants in the paddy and in the trays on the cart. Two herons are standing in a paddy of maturing rice plants, and another is flying over the centeral paddy. The fields and paddys are beautifully shaded. Rain falls in light streaks. You will note that there are no black keybock lines. Their absence gives the feel of a watercolor to the print. This watercolor feel is intensified by the delicate, freehand look of the rice plants, the elegant sweep of the willow branches, and the smudged look to the leaves of the background trees. This is one of Ohno's best landscapes. Ohno Bafuku was born in Tokyo and moved to Kansai. He was an honorary member of the Hyogo Prefecture Academy of Fine Arts, and a member of Taiheiyogakai. He is particularly noted for his kacho-e prints, but he did a number of fine landscapes as well. Artist: Ohno Bafuku, 1888-1976 Date: 1952 Publisher Kyoto-Hanga Impression: Excellent – lightly embossed Color: Excellent –. Nice shading Condition: very good Size : 14" x 9 3/8 " approx.
	Artist Bio:	Bakufu Ohno (1888-1976) was born in Tokyo. He moved to Kansai after the great Kantou earthquake in 1923. Ohno exhibited oil paintings at Teiten in 1929. He was an honorary member of the Hyogo Prefecture Academy of Fine Arts, and a member of Taiheiyogakai. Ohno produced many landscape and fish prints, including the Great Japanese Fish Picture Collection (Dai Nihon gyorui gashu) in 1940, which was published by Kyoto Hanga-in; blocks were carved by Matsuda and Kikuda, printed by Shinagawa, Nagae, Uchida and Ohno. 大野麥風（1888-1976、本名：要蔵）は、東京で生まれ、初めは長原孝太郎の指導を受け、洋画を学びました。1909年の第3回文部省美術展覧会で画壇に登場してからは、白馬会・太平洋画会・光風会などにも出品したものの、やがて、洋画から日本画に転向し、1919年の第1回帝国美術院展覧会では、日本画で入選しています。 さらに、木版画を手がけるようになった麥風は、1937年に西宮書院(現在の京都版画院)から出版された代表作 『大日本魚類画集』で、原画を担当し、当代一流の文化人の協力を得て、「原色木版二百度手摺り」といわれる色鮮やかな木版画集を生み出しました。会員制度で頒布されたこの500部限定の木版画集は、1944年まで各回12点、6期に分けて断続的に刊行され、麥風は水族館では飽き足らず、和歌浦沖で潜水艇に乗り、魚の生態を観察し、細部にまでこだわった作品を作り上げました。