After Bath

After Bath depicts a female figure in the quiet moment following the bath, a subject with a long history in Japanese printmaking from ukiyo-e bijin-ga onward. Onchi reframes the theme in the lyrical, modernist idiom of the sosaku-hanga movement: rather than the elaborately patterned kimono and detailed coiffure of an Edo-period beauty print, the body is summarized in spare contours and broad fields of color, with bokashi softening the transitions of skin and cloth. The intimacy of the scene aligns with Onchi's interest in interior, contemplative states — the same sensibility that informs his portraits and lyric abstractions. Cut on cherry block and burnished by hand on washi, the print follows Onchi's lifelong commitment to single-author production, in which design, carving, and printing all proceed from one hand. The result is closer to a private observation than a public picture of a beauty.