Red Lantern Shop
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Ono's socially conscious prints and urban scenes are valued for both artistic quality and historical interest.
The red paper lanterns (akachochin) strung outside a narrow urban establishment — izakaya or small restaurant — gave Ono one of his warmest and most commercially appealing subjects. The lanterns' circular forms and saturated red stand out against the dark geometry of a compressed urban street, creating a visual warmth that contrasts with the cooler architectural prints. Ono renders the scene with the same flat, graphic authority he brings to bridges and cityscapes, but here the subject generates a more immediate sensory pleasure.
Woodblock print
c. 1833/34
Color woodblock print; oban
c. 1922
Color woodblock print
行商人
c. 1940
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Red Lantern Shop was created by Tadashige Ono (小野忠重).
Red Lantern Shop depicts market scenes and daily life.
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