Fairy Tale of the Sea
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- British Museum
Typical Price
- Exceptional mountain or landscape composition: $10,000–$40,000
"Fairy Tale of the Sea" engages Onchi's recurring interest in the sea as a subject of mythological and emotional depth — the ocean not merely as landscape but as the site of stories, of the imagination's limitlessness, of forces larger than human experience. His sea subjects ranged from the quasi-abstract (pure composition of wave and color) to the narrative (fairy tales set in the marine environment), and this work suggests the narrative pole: the sea as the setting for the impossible stories that cultures use to understand the world's deeper currents.
1940
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
September 1931
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Fairy Tale of the Sea was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Fairy Tale of the Sea depicts seascapes.
