Unknown 9

This print, catalogued as 'Unknown 9' within Ohno Bakufu's body of work, likely represents a subject from the 'Dai Nihon Gyorui Gashu' series that has not been definitively identified from available title cartouches or comparative catalogue records. The series documented a wide range of species across Japanese marine and freshwater environments, from common commercial fish to regionally specific specimens less familiar to collectors outside Japan. Ohno worked from direct observation and specimen study, and his collaborating carvers and printers at the Unsodo publishing house in Kyoto maintained consistent technical standards across the series' production run. The consistent visual language of the series—lateral presentation, muted or naturalistic coloring, graduated bokashi, and fine key-block definition—means that even unidentified prints carry the documentary and aesthetic weight of the series as a whole. Identification of this subject would require comparison with the original Japanese publication records.