Maria

A print whose single name — "Maria" — invokes the figure of the Virgin Mary and the entire tradition of Marian devotion, possibly connected to Sekino's European travels or to Japan's own suppressed Catholic heritage (the kakure kirishitan, or hidden Christians, who maintained their faith covertly through the Edo period). The subject may depict a statue, a painting, or a living model cast in the role, with Sekino's woodblock medium providing a cultural remove from Western religious iconography.