Sculpture of a Boy, Shôwa period,

In this woodblock print, Sekino turns his attention to sculptural folk art—a subject reflecting his deep interest in regional craft traditions rooted in his Aomori upbringing. The composition likely presents a carved figure of a boy, rendered with the clarity of line and deliberate color reduction characteristic of sosaku-hanga practice. Sekino's approach to depicting three-dimensional sculpture in a flat medium often emphasizes contour and the interplay of light and shadow, translating the tactile qualities of carved wood or stone into the texture achievable through multiple-block printing. As a Shōwa period subject, the work engages with postwar reassessments of Japanese folk heritage, a theme shared by many sosaku-hanga artists who looked to vernacular crafts as repositories of authentic cultural expression. The print belongs to a body of work in which Sekino examined not only the human figure directly but the objects and images through which communities choose to represent it.