Tokyo station

A second view of Tatsuno Kingo's 1914 red-brick Tokyo Station building, the great Marunouchi terminus that anchored the Yamanote Line and stood as a Meiji-era declaration of architectural modernity. Onchi's repeated treatment of the station — likely part of his contributions to the Shin Tokyo Hyakkei series — uses the building as a fixed motif against which to test variations of viewpoint, weather, and crowd density. The [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) method places the design, carving, and printing entirely in the artist's hands, so each separate composition can adjust its color program freely without coordinating with workshop colorists. This print likely differs from its companions in framing or palette while sharing their common visual vocabulary: simplified architectural mass, flat color zones, suppressed ornamental detail. The mokuhanga surface — ink and pigment hand-burnished onto [washi](/glossary/washi) — registers Onchi's pressure on the [baren](/glossary/baren), giving the print the slight tonal variation characteristic of self-printed sosaku-hanga work.