Park in Vienna

A view of one of Vienna's formal gardens or public parks — likely the Volksgarten, Stadtpark, or grounds of a former imperial residence. Ono approaches the subject with the carved line and reduced palette characteristic of [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga), favoring flat planes of color over modeled realism. The print is pulled from a small set of blocks worked on [washi](/glossary/washi), with [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradation suggesting recession through the trees or atmospheric softening of the middle distance. The European park subject marks a shift from his prewar prints of Tokyo factories and laborers, reflecting the broader opening of sosaku-hanga to international travel in the 1950s and 1960s. Where his earlier work used stark black-and-white contrast for social commentary, these European travel prints introduce a broader chromatic range while retaining the directness of self-carved, self-printed mokuhanga. The composition organizes itself around the architecture of paths, hedges, and pavilion structures rather than naturalistic foliage, in keeping with Ono's habit of reducing a scene to its structural elements.