Before the Mirror - Koshiro Onchi Art Print

Fine Art Prints

Forget cheap reproductions and printable posters. Only the best will do. Velvety matte fine art paper (warm white, archival-grade, 200gsm) with bold, vibrant, non-toxic pigment inks. 

High-definition print lab techniques give you sharper details, deeper saturation and true-to-life tones.

The matte surface keeps glare down and archival-grade materials mean the colors you fall for stay vivid for decades.

Framed Fine Art Prints

Your print arrives framed and ready to hang, so it goes straight from the box to your wall.

Chevron cut wooden frames make a timeless statement in three distinctive colors: black, white and natural.

Each frame is made of sustainably sourced FSC® certified European knotless pine, finished with ultra-clear perspex glaze that’s lighter than glass and shatter-resistant.

Float Framed Canvas Prints

Luscious artist-grade cotton canvas, hand-stretched and finely textured, gives every detail depth and precision. Its natural white surface catches light and color with striking clarity.

A precisely measured floating frame leaves a slim gap around the canvas, so it seems to hover with a sleek, gallery-worthy effect.

Your choice of a black, white or natural frame: all made from sustainably sourced FSC® certified European knotless pine.

Giclée Printing

A sliding door has been left one crack open, and Kōshirō Onchi lets you stand in the gap. Before the Mirror, cut around 1930, splits its sheet between a blank fusuma of cream gofun and a woman caught in glass. She lifts one hand to her lacquer-black chignon. Her reflected face sinks behind her own arm. A single downcast eye keeps the secret.

Vermilion line traces elbow and collarbone like a pulse drawn on paper. The wall glows coral-pink with mica. Wood-grain pattern runs over the gilt frame like collage pasted by a restless hand. On the dresser a blue bottle waits.

This Japanese woodblock print bows to the bijinga beauties of ukiyo-e, then breaks them apart. The body splinters inside glass. Space folds shut. A plum-brown hikite floats on the empty door and rhymes with the cinnabar dot of her breast, a sly game of ma (the pause Japanese design treats as substance) played on here by the father of sōsaku hanga. Self-printed and signed K. Onchi in blind embossing, this Shōwa-era art print leaves the door to your heart ajar.