$500–$6,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Sekino's prolific output keeps prices accessible. Portrait prints are most collected.
The station of Yoshiwara offers one of the Tokaido's most celebrated Fuji views — the mountain seen across an open coastal plain decorated in spring with cherry blossoms, the pink and white of the flowers providing a seasonal counterpoint to the volcano's permanent snow-capped summit. Sekino's version of this iconic pairing brings his color woodblock mastery to bear on a subject so freighted with art-historical precedent that originality requires finding something new within the familiar compositional grammar.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Yoshiwara: Mt. Fuji and Cherry Blossoms was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Yoshiwara: Mt. Fuji and Cherry Blossoms depicts landscapes, cherry blossoms, and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.
