"Brush Sketch of Bridge" suggests one of Onchi's more gestural works — a bridge study rendered with the looseness and spontaneity of preliminary brushwork rather than the considered composition of a finished print. His interest in bridges as compositional subjects was consistent with his broader concern for structural forms in the landscape: the bridge as human engineering in dialogue with water and terrain, its span creating the kind of spatial tension that engaged his formal sensibility. This brushwork approach may reflect his wider practice of cross-media sketching.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Brush Sketch of Bridge was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Brush Sketch of Bridge depicts landscapes, bridges, and calligraphy.
