Horses grazing

Animal subjects appear across Sekino's career, and horses — particularly in the context of Tohoku and Hokkaido, where horse culture remained significant in agriculture and traditional life — held regional resonance for this artist from Aomori. A print depicting horses grazing likely shows one or more animals at rest or moving slowly through an open field, with the landscape reduced to horizontal bands of color: earth, grass, and sky. The horse's form — its muscular flank, the sweep of the neck and mane — would be rendered through Sekino's characteristic bold carving, the cut of the chisel leaving traces that animate the animal's surface with a physical energy absent from photographic representation. The subject sits within the broader [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) tradition of animal studies but moves it toward a pastoral register, prioritizing the lived environment of the working animal over decorative elegance. Color would likely emphasize warm earth tones and the natural spectrum of horse coat.