Odawara: Dharma Market
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
$500–$6,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Sekino's prolific output keeps prices accessible. Portrait prints are most collected.
The Dharma Market at Odawara — the annual New Year fair where Daruma dolls (the round, weighted figures that right themselves when knocked over, representing the Buddhist patriarch Bodhidharma) were sold as good-luck charms for the coming year — appears here as a festival crowd scene. The Daruma market gave Odawara's commercial life a festive dimension at the year's start, the bright red figures filling the stalls in a display that Sekino's color woodblock captures with evident enjoyment.
Kamakura Daibutsu
1930
Color woodblock print
1950
Color woodblock print
大仏
Woodblock print
1926
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Odawara: Dharma Market was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Odawara: Dharma Market depicts religious and market scenes.
