Devastation
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
"Devastation" speaks directly to the experience of wartime destruction — Onchi worked through the Allied firebombing of Tokyo in 1945 and the war's devastation of Japan's cities, and prints made in this period reflect both the physical reality of ruin and the emotional experience of cultural catastrophe. Where most of his contemporaries avoided direct engagement with destruction, Onchi confronted it formally and emotionally, making prints that processed the experience of devastation through visual means. This work stands among the most historically direct of Onchi's subjects.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Devastation was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Devastation depicts urban scenes and abstract.
