Fireflies

Fireflies, a mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock print) by Jun'ichiro Sekino, shows a woman seen from behind against a solid black ground, her dark upswept hair ornamented with a gold butterfly, a pink comb, blue hairpins, and a green ornament, with small red and blue flecks scattered through the black field around her head. Her long pale neck meets a white collar trimmed in red and patterned with thin pale-blue lines, above a lower panel depicting a golden sliding door on which a second woman's face appears beside pink blossoms, dressed in a densely patterned robe of green, red, white, and gold. The sheet is pencil-numbered 190/195 and signed by the artist beneath the image, with a red seal in the lower right of the door panel.