Umi no dowa (Fairy-tale of the Sea)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- British Museum
Typical Price
- Exceptional mountain or landscape composition: $10,000–$40,000
"Umi no dowa (Fairy-tale of the Sea)" returns Onchi to the sea as a site of imagination and narrative — the ocean as the domain where the impossible becomes possible, where the rules of the ordinary world no longer apply. His sea fairy-tale prints consistently engaged the intersection of the natural world's actual grandeur with the human imagination's need to populate that grandeur with story. The specifically Japanese tradition of sea mythology (the dragon palace beneath the waves, the turtle-borne traveler) provided Onchi with a cultural vocabulary that his formal modernism could engage and transform.
1940
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
September 1931
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Umi no dowa (Fairy-tale of the Sea) was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Umi no dowa (Fairy-tale of the Sea) depicts seascapes.
