Fujikawa- Tokaidô

Fujikawa was the thirty-seventh station of the Tōkaidō, located in former Mikawa province (modern Aichi Prefecture), a small post-town between Akasaka and Okazaki. In Sekino's Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi series (1960–1974), each station receives an independently composed treatment rather than following Hiroshige's pictorial conventions. The Fujikawa sheet engages the rural terrain east of the Yahagi River, with low-pitched farmhouse roofs and the receding lines of the old road as anchor elements. Sekino's mature technique combines a deeply incised key block with broad color blocks printed in muted, atmospheric tones—indigo, ochre, slate—often laid down with multiple impressions to build density. As a sōsaku-hanga artist, he designed, carved, and printed every block himself, and his Tōkaidō series represents a sustained, multi-decade engagement with a route long central to ukiyo-e meisho-e (famous-place pictures).