Cuckoo in Storm by Ohara Koson, 1925 Size:16x36in (40x90cm) Practical Use: Designed for cyclists

Practical Use: Designed for cyclists and tourists

offering an exceptional glimpse into the town's historical cartography

Church cultivated a poetic sensitivity to the sublime even in his earliest works

It's perhaps not quite as striking as the more famous 1843 geology map of England & Wales

Soviet Union (USSR)

Cuckoo in Storm by Ohara Koson, 1925 Size:16x36in (40x90cm) Practical Use: Designed for cyclistsCuckoo in Storm by Ohara Koson (1925) is a luminous example of early 20thcentury Japanese woodblock printmaking at its most poetic. A leading figure of the shin hanga revival, Koson transforms a fleeting glimpse of nature into an elegant meditation on weather, movement, and silence. A lone cuckoo crosses a storm darkened sky, its streamlined silhouette set against sweeping atmosphere and carefully placed negative spacean heir to Ukiyo e aesthetics