Bridge in Venice

A view of one of Venice's stone arched bridges, likely depicted with the pedestrian arch crossing a narrow canal flanked by waterside façades. Ono traveled in his later decades, and his foreign subjects extended the meisho tradition to European cities while retaining the structural directness of his early urban prints. The composition probably centers the bridge's curved span as a graphic anchor, with reflections in the canal water rendered through bokashi gradations or layered key-block impressions. Surface texture from the baren remains visible on the washi, a sosaku-hanga hallmark distinguishing the artist's hand from the uniform color fields of commercial shin-hanga production. Color is used selectively rather than descriptively, reducing the Venetian palette to a few tonal blocks that emphasize architectural geometry over picturesque atmosphere. The print belongs to a strain in Ono's mature output where his earlier graphic preoccupation with the urban built environment — factories and streets of 1930s Tokyo — was carried into Old World cityscapes, producing topographic prints that read as structural studies of place rather than tourist views.