

"Image No. 6: Motherhood (1)" addresses one of human experience's most fundamental subjects through Onchi's characteristic combination of formal refinement and emotional directness. The mother-and-child relationship was a recurring subject in his work, and this numbered image in the series treats it neither as sentimental genre scene nor as pure abstraction but as something between: a composition whose formal choices carry emotional weight, whose color and spatial relationships embody the psychological reality of the maternal bond.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Image No.6 Motherhood (1) was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Image No.6 Motherhood (1) depicts figures, children, and daily life.