Yuigahama beach

Yuigahama, the broad sand beach fronting Sagami Bay at Kamakura, was a popular bathing and recreation destination by the early twentieth century. Onchi's seascape likely emphasizes horizontal bands of sand, water, and sky rather than narrative figures - sosaku-hanga landscapes leaned toward mood and tonal arrangement rather than the topographical specificity of meisho-e. Bokashi gradients across the sky and sea would be central to the effect, with the baren-printed surface allowing variation between impressions. Coastal scenes like this one belong to the more lyrical, observational side of Onchi's output, distinct from the fully abstract compositions he developed from the 1920s onward. As a self-carved, self-printed work, it embodies the sosaku-hanga conviction that a print's atmosphere should derive from the artist's own hand rather than from a publisher's coordinated house style.