Fujisawa

Fujisawa was the sixth station on the Tōkaidō, the Edo-period highway connecting Edo to Kyoto, historically associated with Yugyō-ji temple of the Ji sect and its pilgrimage traffic. Sekino published his own Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi series between 1960 and 1974, a sōsaku-hanga reimagining of the route that Hiroshige had codified more than a century earlier. Where Hiroshige treated the stations as theatrical genre scenes peopled with travelers, Sekino strips the road back to its modern remnants—roof lines, telephone poles, weathered torii, the stillness of contemporary post-towns. His Fujisawa employs broad, planar fields of color separated by precise key-block contours, with selective bokashi gradations rather than uniform fills. The print exemplifies the sōsaku-hanga principle of jiga, jikoku, jizuri—self-drawn, self-carved, self-printed—and treats the historical place-name as a starting point for a personal landscape rather than a pictorial reproduction of Hiroshige's design.