Zoo in Early Fall
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Description
"Zoo in Early Fall" takes the zoo as an urban landscape subject in the specific atmospheric conditions of early autumn — when the heat of summer has begun to ease and the zoo's grounds take on the first notes of seasonal change in their plantings and in the quality of the afternoon light. Onchi's zoo subjects, which include the 1945 Ueno Zoo from the "Recollections" series, treat the zoo as a place where urban Japan and the natural world staged their most concentrated encounter, with all the complexity that relationship implied.
More Prints by Onchi Koshiro
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A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Kiyonaga's Pipe (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Kiyonaga no kiseru)
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View of Kabuki Theater from Matsuya (Ginza Matsuya yori Kabukiza), no. 3 from the series "Pictures of Ginza, First Series (Gashu Ginza dai isshu)"
1928
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Distant View of Mitsukoshi Movie Theater in Shinjuku from the Sixth Floor of Hoteiya (Hoteiya rokkai kara Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Musashi no kan enbo zu), no. 1 from the series "Scenery of Shinjuku (Gashu Shinjuku fukei)"
1930
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Spring Dusk at the Tōshō Shrine in Ueno
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Zoo in Early Fall was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Zoo in Early Fall depicts urban scenes, animals, and autumn foliage.