Profile of Young Girl in Kimono, Shôwa period, dated 1957

Depicting a young woman in profile wearing a kimono, this 1957 print engages the bijin-ga tradition of beautiful-woman imagery while departing from its Edo-period conventions through the personal, observational approach characteristic of sōsaku-hanga. Sekino renders the silhouette and fabric with careful attention to the fall of cloth, likely employing delicate bokashi to model the face and neck. The kimono's textile pattern would provide an opportunity for precise register-cutting, with each color layer demanding exact alignment. Rather than the idealized archetype of woodblock bijin-ga, Sekino's subject carries the specificity of a portrait, grounding the work in mid-Shōwa everyday life.