Road
- Medium:
- Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
- Image courtesy of
- Saru Gallery
Description
A second Road print extends Ono's serial investigation of the Tokyo street, varying viewpoint, density, or block registration while holding to the same generic title. Mokuhanga of this kind typically combine a heavily worked black keyblock with one or two flat color blocks, the carver's tool marks left legible as part of the surface. The composition would set a road against architectural elements — utility poles, hoardings, the edges of low shops — pressed close to the picture plane in the manner Ono adopted from European modernist printmaking and the Ichimoku-kai circle around Koshiro Onchi. As historian as well as practitioner, Ono used such repetitions to test how far a single subject could be carried by changes in carving and inking, and the Road sheets read as practical demonstrations of the principles he laid out in his writings on sosaku-hanga.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Road was created by Tadashige Ono (小野忠重).
Road depicts travel scenes.