Procession of courtisan

A second composition on the oiran dochu theme, indicating that Sekino returned to the courtesan procession more than once, much as he produced multiple views of single Tokaido stations. Variants in this kind of subject typically differ in cropping, the number and arrangement of attendants, the angle on the central figure, or the palette governing the courtesan's robes and the surrounding architecture. The procession's formal vocabulary — the towering shimada hairstyle pinned with kanzashi, the trailing uchikake, the crossed-out parasol, the small kamuro flanking the central figure — gave Sekino a repertoire of motifs that could be recombined across prints. Technically the sheet relies on the standard sosaku-hanga workflow: a key block carved by the artist, multiple color blocks registered by kento marks, and hand-printing with the baren on washi. The work participates in the mid-twentieth-century reassessment of ukiyo-e themes, treating them as historical material rather than living genre.