Bookplate (Art Deco)

A mid-century etching worked in an Art Deco idiom, this bookplate design demonstrates Sekino's fluency in Western printmaking traditions alongside his woodblock work. The geometric stylization and ornamental precision of Art Deco provided a useful counterweight to the organic mark-making of his hanga practice, and Sekino produced a number of etched bookplates for collectors and literary figures throughout the 1940s and 1950s.