Treasure Ship Spring (Goddess)

Part of Oda's "Treasure Ship Goddesses" series, this print reimagines the takarabune — the traditional treasure ship of the Seven Lucky Gods — with a female deity in place of the conventional male pantheon of Daikoku, Ebisu, and their companions. In folk practice, an image of the takarabune placed under the pillow on the second night of the new year was said to bring auspicious dreams. Oda inverts this masculine iconography by installing a goddess as the ship's presiding figure, here in a spring-themed variation. The mokuhanga technique carries expanses of color across wave patterns and blossom motifs, with kentō registration marks aligning each block precisely. The series claims a traditional Japanese motif for explicitly feminine and feminist purposes, and is among Oda's signature contributions to contemporary Japanese printmaking.