Onsen in the Snow, Fukushima captures the iconic Japanese experience of bathing in hot springs amid falling snow. Sekino's native Fukushima provided the setting for this evocative winter scene. Prices range from $300-$900, with the combination of snow landscape and regional specificity making it highly collectible.
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.
Mutsu Tsuta onsen
1919
Color woodblock print; oban
1943
Color woodblock print
Autumn 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1924
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
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.
