Poster Poster

The doubled title suggests a print conceived as a poster image — either a design Sekino produced for an exhibition or commercial commission, or a self-referential work treating the poster as graphic subject. Sekino's commercial and exhibition designs typically use bolder, flatter color than his landscape prints, exploiting large undivided fields of pigment that the woodblock medium handles especially well on absorbent washi. Lettering, when present in his posters, is carved directly into the block alongside the imagery, integrating typography and image as a single graphic surface. The work reflects the broader involvement of sosaku-hanga artists in mid-twentieth-century graphic design: figures including Onchi Kōshirō moved fluidly between fine-art prints and book, magazine, and poster work, treating the woodblock as a viable medium for modern visual communication rather than only for the traditional subjects of bijin-ga, meisho-e, or kacho-e.