House

This second House continues Ono's series of studies of Japanese vernacular dwellings, a subject he returned to repeatedly in the postwar decades. The variation of the same title across multiple prints reflects sosaku-hanga practice, where artists treated a recurring motif as a vehicle for formal experiment rather than as an exhausted subject. The image likely isolates a single building — perhaps with a glimpse of garden wall, neighboring roofline, or telegraph pole — rendered in the carved-plank manner that allowed Ono to register the grain of the cherry or katsura block as part of the printed surface. The relatively small palette typical of Ono's mokuhanga (often black with one or two earth tones) keeps the image graphic rather than illustrative. Such studies sit alongside his industrial and townscape prints as part of a sustained documentation of the everyday built environment that Ono continued to pursue throughout his fifty-year career.