Seashore

A coastal landscape rendered in mokuhanga, drawing the seashore into Ono's recurring postwar subject range. The Japanese seashore as a subject sits at the intersection of meisho-e — the famous-place tradition that produced Hiroshige's coastal stations along the Tokaido — and the sosaku-hanga preference for unspectacular, lived environments rather than nominated scenic sites. The seashore offered the printmaker a compositional armature of horizon line, breaking surf, rock formations, and tidal flats, all of which translate to the planar cuts and registered color blocks of woodcut. Bokashi gradation, applied by wiping pigment across the block before printing, suits the sea-to-sky transitions a coastal composition demands. As the second print bearing this title, this image belongs to a sustained engagement with shoreline motifs across Ono's career, the artist returning to the same subject through different states, formats, or color treatments. The plain title — without a place name — keeps the work generic to the Japanese coast rather than tied to a specific meisho.