Onsen in the Snow (Fukushima)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- ukiyo-e.org
Description
The hot-spring resort of Fukushima Prefecture — famous for its thermal baths and winter snowfall — provides the setting for a nude figure in a steaming outdoor onsen pool. Sekino's nude subjects are relatively rare but frank, and the hot-spring context gives this one particular cultural grounding: the rotenburo (outdoor bath) is both a deeply Japanese institution and an occasion for the kind of unguarded bodily ease that Sekino's printmaking eye finds honest rather than erotic.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Onsen in the Snow (Fukushima) was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Onsen in the Snow (Fukushima) uses Nishiki-e, Moku-hanga, and Kento, on woodblock print.
Onsen in the Snow (Fukushima) depicts nude and snow scenes.