Sea

A second variation in Ono's "Sea" sequence, in which repetition becomes a form of inquiry. Where the first print might emphasize horizontal calm, this impression likely introduces a different rhythmic register — denser carved striations, a shifted tonal weight, or a recomposed block arrangement. Sosaku-hanga practice encouraged this kind of serial reworking: the artist carves, prints, evaluates, and recarves, treating each block as a thinking surface. Ono's seascapes consistently balance graphic clarity with tactile incident — the kind of mark only a hand-pulled mokuhanga on washi can register. Although divorced from the meisho-e tradition of named coastal views, his generic "Sea" titles place him within a longer Japanese pictorial preoccupation with water, while his abstract handling marks him firmly within the modernist current of postwar creative printmaking.