Train Station

A modern subject typical of the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) movement's engagement with contemporary Japanese life. The print likely depicts platforms, signage, overhead wires, or waiting figures, rendered in geometric color blocks and sharp linear contours that Sekino used for urban architecture. Train stations recur across his work as part of his wider treatment of the Tokaido corridor — he produced a Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido series in the 1960s that updated Hiroshige's original by traveling the route and recording its postwar appearance. The composition probably balances strong perspective lines against figure groupings, with careful registration between key block contours and color blocks. Sekino's urban prints avoid nostalgic or sentimental tones, presenting modern infrastructure with the same documentary attention he brought to traditional subjects. The piece reflects the sosaku-hanga conviction that the woodblock medium remained suited to depicting modern Japan, not only the floating world of Edo.