Field of Buddha's

A grouping of stone Buddhist figures, most likely jizo or small stone Buddha statues arrayed in a field or temple precinct, a subject long established in Japanese landscape tradition and frequently taken up by sosaku-hanga artists for its quiet pictorial rhythm. The composition would typically rely on the repetition of rounded stone forms set against a flat ground, with carved outlines and broad color areas rather than modeled volume — a treatment well suited to the planar logic of mokuhanga and the limited tonal range of self-printed editions. Weathered stone surfaces lend themselves to deliberate exploitation of wood grain pulled through the baren, and to bokashi shading at the base of each figure to suggest moss or shadow. Within Ono's wider body of work, the religious subject sits alongside his landscape and travel prints as part of the postwar shift away from the social-realist factory and worker imagery he produced in the 1930s, toward contemplative and traditional Japanese motifs handled in a modernist printmaking idiom.