Artworks

Image No. 7: Black Cat (a)

Artwork · Onchi Kōshirō · 1952 · Japanese woodblock print · British Museum

A paperblock print of Onchi Kōshirō’s last years: simple shapes pressed onto the sheet, the ink smearing outside its form — the old Zen wabi in a stark, even numinous image. 1 Mason 2005, p. 386, fig. 461. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.