$500–$6,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Sekino's prolific output keeps prices accessible. Portrait prints are most collected.
The post-town of Fukuroi appears here through the image of annual growth rings — the concentric circles visible in a cross-section of timber — a motif that references the woodworking and lumber industry for which the region was known. The growth rings also carry temporal symbolism (each ring a year, each year a layer of time added to the living tree) that gives this station print an unusual meditative quality.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Fukuroi: Annual Growth Rings was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Fukuroi: Annual Growth Rings depicts trees, village scenes, and abstract.
