Field

A second treatment of the same subject — Ono frequently produced variant impressions or related compositions exploring a single motif under altered conditions of light, season, or vantage. This second Field likely shifts the framing or the tonal register: a different time of day registered through bokashi gradation in the sky, or the same terrain viewed from a closer vantage that brings the textures of soil and stubble forward. Working in the sosaku-hanga tradition, Ono used the wood block as much for its physical character as for its descriptive function, allowing the grain and the bite of the knife to remain legible in the final image. The repeated subject is consistent with his methodical practice across five decades, in which a single motif — a river, a workshop, a stretch of cultivated land — would be returned to and reworked across years. Such pairings were common among Ichimoku-kai artists, who treated the print less as a fixed image than as a sustained investigation.