Profile of Young Girl in Kimono

A 1957 woodblock in which a young girl's face is shown in three-quarter profile, her kimono collar framing the composition's lower edge. The side-view orientation — relatively unusual in Sekino's children's portraits, which tend toward the frontal — introduces a quality of distraction or private thought, as if the girl's attention is engaged by something outside the frame. The kimono's patterns provide color and texture that balances the face's simplicity.