

$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Ono's socially conscious prints and urban scenes are valued for both artistic quality and historical interest.
Mount Fuji rendered in white — the mountain in winter or seen through the bleaching light of a high-altitude view, its snow-covered flanks a luminous counterpoint to a darker sky. Part of a numbered Fuji series, "White Fuji 8" likely explores the mountain as near-abstract shape: a white triangle against a contrasting ground, stripped of detail, depending on outline and the quality of the surrounding color field for its impact. The minimal palette is characteristic of Ono at his most formally severe.

Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print

1934
Color woodblock print; oban

n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
White Fuji 8 was created by Tadashige Ono (小野忠重).
White Fuji 8 depicts landscapes and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.