Shells and Butterflies

A still life arrangement of shells piled on a black cloth, including a large pink conch, a spiral shell with pale banding, a mussel, and several smaller cone and turban shells, set against a wood-grained tan background on the left and flat grey on the right. A yellow-and-black swallowtail butterfly and a horned beetle hover above the shells near the top of the composition. The palette is muted — black, tan, grey, and dusty pink — with fine linear detail rendered in the woodblock technique; this print, titled *Shells and Butterflies* by Jun'ichiro Sekino, is a woodblock print of unknown date.