Boy with Dog and Cat

A third iteration of the Boy with Dog and Cat theme, indicating the subject held sustained significance in Sekino's practice. Across this series, Sekino appears to have explored varying compositional cropping, color register, and mood. This impression may feature a closer figure arrangement or more saturated color blocks. The subject connects to a broader tradition in Japanese printmaking of depicting children in naturalistic settings, though Sekino's approach is distinctly modern — free of the idealization found in [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) children's subjects, favoring instead an unaffected, observational quality rooted in his Aomori upbringing.