$500–$6,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Sekino's prolific output keeps prices accessible. Portrait prints are most collected.
The skyline of Florence at dusk, the city's famous landmarks — the Duomo's dome, the Palazzo Vecchio's tower, the dark cypresses of Piazzale Michelangelo — reduced to their essential silhouettes against an evening sky. Sekino's European prints from his 1959 travels capture the cities he visited as graphic forms first and cultural symbols second, and Florence's skyline provided ideal material for the strong-contour approach his woodblock vocabulary favored.
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Florence Evening Silhouette was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Florence Evening Silhouette depicts night scenes.
