Kameyama: Samurai Mansion, No. 47 from the series, Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi), 1964

Color woodblock print

16 7/8 x 21 1/2 inches (42.9 x 54.6 cm) 

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bequest of
Warren H. and Mary I. Watanabe, 2001

2001-138-23

One of the leaders of the Sōsaku hanga, or Creative Print movement, Sekino preferred abstract components that exploited the special possibilities inherent in wood. This print is the forty-seventh composition in the series, Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road, and served as an homage to the subject’s previous treatment by such Edo-period masters as Hokusai and Hiroshige (also exhibited in this gallery). Here, Sekino uses sharp, clean lines and simplified forms to modernize his subject matter.

Yae-jin Ha