Gallery 4F: Sekino Junichirō

Sekino Jun'ichirō (1914 - 1988) was a major contributor to the sosaku hanga art movement and was one of the founding members of Onchi Kōshirō’s First Thursday Society. Sekino is recognized for his portrait prints but also designed still-life, landscape, animal, and abstract prints. Although a sosaku hanga artist, Sekino is unlikely to have been the carver and printer for all of his smaller works as evidenced by the presence of several of samples his works in a catalogue of  prints by the publisher Chikuhōdō, Yokohama. Additional works by Sekino can be viewed in Gallery 12: Ex Libris.

Untitled. A design for a Christmas card insert. Published by Chikuhōdō, Yokohama. 9.4 x 15.1 cm

Untitled. A design for a Christmas card insert. Published by Chikuhōdō, Yokohama. 9.0 x 15.6 cm

New Year's Postcard. 1951 (Rabbit). 8.9 x 13.4 cm

Toy Shop in Iriecho, Shimonoseki. Depicts an Oiran Doll. Woodblock Printed Postcard. 8.7 x 13.9 cm

From the 1955 Dai 21-kai Han no Kai Sakuhin-shu (the Works of the 21st Han Association). postcard exchange. 9.1 x 13.9 cm

Untitled. Image of a doll. Undated. 10.5 x 14.9 cm

Iizaka Hot Spa (Anabara). Undated. 9.3 x 14.1 cm

New Year’s Greeting from Hotta Ryōhei. 1979. 10.0 x 14.7

Undated. Florence Rooftops. 10.3 x 14.8 cm

Undated. 9.7 x 14.5 cm

Unititled. 1950s. 14.8 x 9.3 cm

Florence Pigeon. From Print Appreciation Meeting Collection. Vol. I (No. 178/200). 1980. 15.9 x 12.2 cm

14.9 x 22.1 cm

14.8 x 22.2 cm

14.9 x 22.1 cm

Image from a woodblock printed greeting card signed by Oliver Statler. Undated. 15.1 x 11.7 cm

Image from a Woodblock Printed Calendar. 1962. 11.2 x 12.7 cm

The follwoing five prints are bookplate illustrations that Sekino produced for the book Yagura Daiko. The book was published in 1969 in an edition of 480 copies.

14.9 x 22.1 cm

14.9 x 22.1 cm

14.9 x 22.0 cm