Midnight - Ichimokushu Vol 6
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
"Midnight — Ichimokushu Vol. 6" from Onchi's First Thursday Collection (Ichimokushu) is a nocturnal abstraction — the specific quality of midnight darkness rendered through the formal means available to woodblock printing. The First Thursday Collections were small-edition print series that Onchi and his associates produced for subscription, each volume exploring different subjects through the medium's specific possibilities. Midnight offered Onchi the extreme case of low illumination, where familiar forms disappear and color reduces to near-monochrome, creating conditions for formal investigation impossible in normal daylight.
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Evening Shower at Teradomari (Teradomari no yau), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series (Tabi miyage dai nishu)"
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![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Moon at Nakanoshima, Sapporo (Sapporo Nakanoshima no yuzuki), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen)"
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Midnight - Ichimokushu Vol 6 was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Midnight - Ichimokushu Vol 6 depicts night scenes and abstract.