OKUHARA SEIKO (1837-1913) MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY Two Japanese woodblock prints, the first entitled `Crow on a Branch of Willow`, the black bird perched before a graduated orange ground; the other `Two Water-hens amongst Reeds`, both signed and with a red seal mark for Seiko, both shikishiban, approx. 24cm x 25cm. (2) Provenance: from the private collection of a British artist, formed in the 1990s. Okuhara Seiko was a bunjin (literati female artist) living in Japan in the late 1800s. She was born into a family of samurai, and later became a successful artist, founding an art school and exhibiting around the country. Her works are now to be found in important collections around the world, including in the Tokyo National Museum, the British Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and many others.