Devastation
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
"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.
More Prints by Onchi Koshiro
More Urban Scenes Prints
A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Kiyonaga's Pipe (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Kiyonaga no kiseru)
Woodblock print
View of Kabuki Theater from Matsuya (Ginza Matsuya yori Kabukiza), no. 3 from the series "Pictures of Ginza, First Series (Gashu Ginza dai isshu)"
1928
Color lithograph
Distant View of Mitsukoshi Movie Theater in Shinjuku from the Sixth Floor of Hoteiya (Hoteiya rokkai kara Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Musashi no kan enbo zu), no. 1 from the series "Scenery of Shinjuku (Gashu Shinjuku fukei)"
1930
Color lithograph
Spring Dusk at the Tōshō Shrine in Ueno
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Devastation was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Devastation depicts urban scenes and abstract.