1937. KITASONO Katue, poet & ONCHI Kôshirô, artist. Shishû NATSU NO TEGAMI. Tokyo, Aoi Shobo, Showa 12 [1937] Folio, 30.0 X 22.0 cm, #11 of 200 copies printed. The binding, the typography, the illustrations, all combine as a fluid visual container for Kitasono's brilliant poems. Interesting to compare this work... More about Shishû NATSU NO TEGAMI
1943. ONCHI KÔSHIRO, artist. CHU.GYO.KAI. 26.6 X 20.8 cm. #158 of 250cc. Aoi Shobo. A wonderful Onchi cover and 10 prints inside, illustrating his poem fragments. The combination of the abstract and the figurative is lovely and moving. Published during the war Showa 18 - 1943) in Tokyo, as part... More about CHU.GYO.KAI
1946. ONCHI Kôshiro, artist. Framed collection of Woodcut Illustrations. After the war, Onchi Koshiro created a series of woodcut illustrations for a project involving the publication of a revamped classroom curriculum for Japanese students in the post-war era. For whatever reason, those designs do not appear to have been used..... More about Framed collection of Woodcut Illustrations
1947. ONCHI Koshiro, artist; Inoue Yasufumi, poet. Shishû UME. Fugaku Honsha, Showa 22 [1947]. #275 of 600cc, signed by Inoue, the author. 8vo, printed decorative wrappers, book designed by Onchi Koshiro, frontispiece a woodcut designed by Onchi, as well. [Onchi Raissonne, #281, "Portrait of a Poet (Inner Image)"]. Wrappers foxed... More about Shishû UME
1947. ONCHI Kôshiro, artist; Inoue Yasufumi, poet. Shishû UME. Fugaku Honsha, Showa 22 [1947]. #64 of 600cc, signed by Inoue, the author. 8vo, printed decorative wrappers, book designed by Onchi Koshiro, frontispiece a woodcut designed by Onchi, as well. [Onchi Raissonne, #281, "Portrait of a Poet (Inner Image)"]. In very... More about Shishû UME
1946. ONCHI Koshiro, artist & MAEDA Sekibo, poet. Kashu SHINSHO FUJI [Collection of Poetry: NEW PRAISE, FUJI] Tokyo: Fugaku Honsha, Showa 21 [1946]. 28.7 x 20 cm., 2 full page color woodcuts designed by Onchi, 1 tipped-in page of printed calligraphy. Blue and white flexible covers, in a dustwrapper depicting... More about KASHU^ SHINSHO^ FUJI
1934. [SOSAKU HANGA] ONCHI, Kôshirô, artist & author. UMI NO DÔWA. Tokyo: Hanga-so, Showa 9 [1934]. Self-wrappers in glassine, with Onchi's text and accompanying 6 polychrome woodblock prints, the blocks of which were carved by him. Each print is a vortex of images with the female form as visual pivot..... More about UMI NO DÔWA
1943. OZAKI Kohachi, author. ONCHI Kôshiro. KOMAKUSA. Tôkyô,Shôwa 18 [1943]. Single sheet, 29.2 x 34.3 cm. Meant to fold in fourths as a simple species of "book" during the wartime shortage of paper. The lightly colored woodblock print by Onchi is some 11.0 x 15.4 cm. It was cut and..... More about KOMAKUSA