Wind

One of several Ono prints titled Wind, this mokuhanga belongs to a recurring theme in his postwar work: weather and atmosphere rendered through the physical language of the woodblock rather than through descriptive landscape. Wind as a subject is necessarily indirect — visible only in what it moves — and Ono's solution typically involves directional cutting, where the gouge marks themselves describe a prevailing pressure across the sheet. Areas of bokashi gradation, where ink is graded across the block before printing, can suggest gusting cloud or driven rain without literal incident. As a member of the Ichimoku-kai circle around Koshiro Onchi, Ono was committed to the sosaku-hanga principle of self-drawn, self-carved, self-printed work, and his weather subjects extend Onchi's interest in abstract, mood-driven prints. The repetition of the title across multiple sheets reflects his habit of working a motif as a sustained investigation rather than a single statement.