Onchi Kōshirō
Japanese, 1891-1955
Impromptu No. 4
INV-8722
Onchi Kōshirō
Japanese, 1891-19551951
Impromptu No. 4
Onchi Kōshirō Japanese, 1891-1955 →Japanese (culture or style)woodblock printprint
Date
1951
Medium
Wood and object print
Dimensions
60 × 45.3 cm (23 5/8 × 17 7/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Oliver H. Statler
This print is part of a series called Impromptu, in which Onchi Kōshirō explored how chance affected his compositions. Most of the works in this group feature an impression of a string that was dipped in pigment and then allowed to fall naturally. Here, the string was the last element to be printed and was not part of his original design.
Also notable
Works in the same vein
Komurasaki of the Miuraya and Shirai Gompachi (Miuraya Komurasaki, Shirai Gompachi)
Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿 Japanese, c.1753-1806
Hamamatsu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858
Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858
