Lattice Door

"Lattice Door" is an architectural subject — a study of the carved or assembled wooden lattice screens (kōshi) characteristic of traditional Japanese residential and commercial architecture, particularly the merchant townhouses (machiya) of Kyoto and other historic cities. The subject allows Sekino to explore the purely geometric and structural qualities of Japanese carpentry through the graphic language of woodblock printing, where the carved block and the architectural subject share a common material logic. The print likely presents the lattice in flattened perspective, with strong parallel rhythms created by the repeated vertical and horizontal members of the screen, interrupted by the shadows cast through them or glimpses of the interior space beyond. The simplicity of the motif invites sensitivity to color temperature and paper texture, with the aged wood tones of traditional architecture rendered in ochres, grays, and warm browns against the pale washi ground.