Lighthouse

A second Lighthouse composition by Ono, likely a separate state, color variant, or independent treatment of the same coastal motif. Sosaku-hanga artists frequently revisited subjects across multiple prints, varying block configuration, palette, or vantage point rather than reissuing identical impressions, since each print was conceived as an autonomous work carved and pulled by the artist. In this variant the lighthouse mass is again the organizing element, set against the broad horizontal divisions of beach, water, and sky that Ono favored for marine subjects. Expect the surface to register baren pressure unevenly, with washi fibers visible through thinner color passes and crisper registration where outline blocks define the structure's edge. Ono's coastal prints of the postwar decades show a measured palette — slate blues, ochres, weathered whites — that distances them from the saturated chromatics of contemporary commercial shin-hanga while keeping faith with the disciplined graphic language he had developed in his prewar urban and industrial work.