October Autumn rain

This print belongs to the lyrical, weather-focused vein of Sekino's landscape work, with rain and autumn foliage handled as compositional events rather than scenic detail. Rain in mokuhanga is conventionally rendered through fine parallel lines cut into a dedicated key block, and Sekino, like other sosaku-hanga artists, often pushed this device into a more graphic, near-abstract overlay across the image. October foliage would typically be carried by densely registered blocks in oxidized reds, ochres, and sumi-toned browns, with bokashi gradations softening the transition between the wet sky and the colored canopy below. Sekino frequently used heavily textured kozo washi that absorbs pigment unevenly, giving the rain-and-foliage combination a saturated, slightly mottled surface unlike the clean ukiyo-e palette of the nineteenth century. The mood — quiet, transitional, slightly melancholy — connects the sheet to the broader sosaku-hanga interest in seasonal observation as personal expression rather than meisho-e cataloguing of famous places.