Road
- Medium:
- Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
- Image courtesy of
- Saru Gallery
Description
The seventh Road print continues Ono's long meditation on the urban thoroughfare as subject. The image is built from the contrast between black areas pulled from a deeply cut keyblock and quieter washi grounds, with secondary blocks supplying restrained color rather than decorative bokashi. Cropping is close and frontal, with strong verticals — poles, walls, building edges — anchoring the receding ground plane. The sheet reflects the Ichimoku-kai aesthetic of direct carving and self-printing that Ono inherited from Onchi and codified in his books on creative printmaking. Where his prewar street scenes carried explicit social commentary on urban labor, the postwar Road sequence treats the same physical environment as material for formal study, the politics absorbed into a sober attention to the unglamorous fabric of the city.
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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.