Korean Dance (Chosen no odori), Shôwa period,

A record of a Korean dance form seen through Ono's modernist Japanese eye — figures in motion rendered as flat, gestural shapes that capture kinetic energy without illustrative detail. Ono's interest in performance and cultural subjects from beyond Japan reflects both his travels and his engagement with Asian cultural traditions that intersected with but were distinct from his own. The print treats the dance as formal subject matter, finding in movement the same graphic possibilities he found in architecture.