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Koshiro OnchiWW-1926-531642

1926·Woodblock print; ink and color on paper·28 x 24 5/8 in. (71.1 x 62.5 cm)

The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975

Catalogue

Year: 1926
Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 28 x 24 5/8 in. (71.1 x 62.5 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Koshiro Onchi

Artist

Koshiro Onchi

Painting

Koshiro Onchi (1891, 1955) was a Japanese printmaker and painter who pioneered sosaku-hanga, the movement of artist-created woodblock prints that granted makers direct control over design, carving, and printing. Working across ukiyo-e traditions and modernist abstraction, he created boldly graphic compositions that merged Japanese aesthetic heritage with early twentieth-century European influences. His prints and paintings established a distinctly individualized approach to the medium that departed from the commercial workshop system of traditional woodblock production.

Tokyo, Japan

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