Rising tide

This second sheet titled "Rising tide" indicates either a variant impression pulled from the same blocks or a related composition treating the same marine subject. Sosaku-hanga artists routinely produced small editions and reworked compositions across multiple states, with each impression carrying slight differences in inking, registration, and color saturation that arose from hand-printing with the baren. The movement embraced these marginal variations as evidence of the artist's direct involvement, distinguishing creative prints from the divided-labor workshop production of earlier ukiyo-e. Within Ono's catalogue, water and coastal motifs sit alongside the urban and industrial subjects of his prewar period, reflecting the breadth the sosaku-hanga program permitted — landscape, abstraction, and social subjects all treated as legitimate vehicles for the medium. The pairing of two "Rising tide" sheets is consistent with how Ono, who spent over fifty years at the press, returned to motifs and tested compositional alternatives across his working life.