$500–$6,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Sekino's prolific output keeps prices accessible. Portrait prints are most collected.
A study in architectural detail — the latticed wooden door that controlled access and light in traditional Japanese domestic and commercial buildings — treated here as an object of formal interest in its own right. The koshi (lattice) door's geometric pattern of crossing wooden strips creates a grid that Sekino's woodblock technique can replicate with precision, the negative spaces between the strips as important as the wood itself.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
A Lattice Door was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
A Lattice Door depicts snow scenes, architecture, and interiors.
