Boy and Rooster in Moonlight

The nocturnal version of Sekino's boy-and-rooster theme adds the element of moonlight to the familiar pairing, casting the scene in the cooler palette he reserved for night subjects. A 1959 print, it falls in the middle of his most productive period of figure work, when the combination of a child's silhouette and a bird's angular form against a luminous background had become a signature compositional approach.