Crows in an Old Tree, 18th century, Yosa Buson, Japanese, 1716 - 1783, 42 5/8 × 16 1/4 in. ( × cm) (image)74 3/16 × 21 5/8 in. ( × cm) (mount, without roller), Ink on paper, Japan, 18th century, Seven raucous crows flit in and around an old tree at dusk, a scene all too common in autumn and winter. In Japanese poetry and painting, crows have long served as signs of the arrival of winter (the autumn season is suggested in this painting by the pink highlights on the tree’s leaves), and, by extension, death. One old folk belief is that a crow’s call may signal the death

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