Meadow

The third print catalogued under this title, a sequence which suggests Ono used the meadow as a returning subject rather than a one-off. In creative-print practice, repeated titles often signal an ongoing investigation: the artist tests different block configurations, key-block carvings, and color overlays on the same motif until each impression registers as its own object. Tonal weight, sky-to-ground proportion, and the reading of grass texture can shift between sheets even when the subject remains nominally identical. Ono's training in the Onchi-led circle emphasized this kind of self-reflective practice, where the block was not a means of reproducing a pre-drawn image but a partner in shaping it. The Meadow group thus reads as a record of decisions — how to register stillness, how to handle the empty middle of the sheet, how to carry a horizon — rather than as multiple windows onto a single place. The series sits alongside Ono's urban prints as a quieter parallel line in his output.