$500–$6,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Sekino's prolific output keeps prices accessible. Portrait prints are most collected.
A landscape of Hokkaido — Japan's northern island — in the transitional season when winter's grip begins to loosen but spring has not yet fully arrived: bare trees, patches of snow in sheltered hollows, the earth still grey and brown before green returns. Sekino's Hokkaido subjects carry the spatial scale and tonal austerity of the northern landscape, wider and colder than the intimate scale of his Tokaido station prints.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Early Spring in Hokkaido Japan was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Early Spring in Hokkaido Japan depicts spring.
