Narumi: Snowflake Tie-dye Wholesale Store
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
$500–$6,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Sekino's prolific output keeps prices accessible. Portrait prints are most collected.
The station of Narumi, the forty-first on the Tokaido in what is now Nagoya, was famous throughout the Edo period for its production of arimatsu shibori — a resist-dye technique using tied and clamped fabric to produce snowflake-like patterns. Sekino's print of the town's wholesale stores for this textile speciality captures one of the Tokaido's most visually distinctive artisanal industries, the bolt fabrics' intricate patterning a natural subject for a printmaker.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Narumi: Snowflake Tie-dye Wholesale Store was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Narumi: Snowflake Tie-dye Wholesale Store depicts landscapes and market scenes.
