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SEKINO Jun'ichiro (1914 - 1988)		from: 'Fifty-three stations of the Tokaido' station no. 16:  Kanbara - Deep Snow
		Signed:              Jun. Sekino (hand-signed) Seal:                   Jun Date:                   July 1973 Size:                   double oban yoko-e                              (42. 3 x 54. 5 cms / 16 5/8" x 21 1/2") Condition: Fine impression, colors and condition. Paper with watermark: Jun. Sekino. Wide margins. Blocks cut by artist himself. ref. no.: # 531237 Price:  € 750.00

"In the latter half of the eighteenth century, Kanbara was a distribution center. Today it prospers with light metal industry. Putting his easel at the foot of a stone retaining wall of the modern expressway that passes Kanbara, Sekino sketched the landscape, some houses, and the advertisement for the Marutsu Express Freight Company. The finished print, however, done mostly in shades of black or gray to define white snow-covered parts of the scenery, shows an imaginary nighttime snow scene. Hiroshige's masterpiece print of Kanbara in the snow at night was also imaginary, for it seldom snows there." (McClain) Reference: - McClain, "... Sekino Jun'ichiro: The Fifty-three stations of the Tokaido", Museum of Art, University of Oregon, 1978. - Merritt/Yamada, p. 259

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