$500–$6,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Sekino's prolific output keeps prices accessible. Portrait prints are most collected.
The foreigners' cemetery at Kanagawa — established following the 1859 opening of Yokohama as a treaty port, and serving the growing community of Western merchants, diplomats, and missionaries who settled in the area — appears in this Tokaido station print as an unusual subject: the European dead in Japanese soil, their carved stone monuments marking the cultural collision point that Kanagawa-Yokohama represented.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Kanagawa: Foreigner’s Cemetery was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Kanagawa: Foreigner’s Cemetery depicts urban scenes, religious, and travel scenes.
