Odawara

Catalog note / 解説

Offered for sale is an original pencil signed Japanese woodblock print by Jun'ichiro Sekino (1914-1988), titled Odawara, from the series 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road, 1961. This design is illustrated at plate 272 of Jun'ichiro Sekino: The Prints, Sekino, Katsuko (ed.), 1994. Like Hiroshige and Hokusai before him, Sekino illustrated the 53 stations along the Tokaido Road from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto. Sekino is one of the leading artists of the sosaku hanga school, and was a pupil of Koshiro Onchi. This print depicts the Daruma Doll Fair, held annually for 400 years at the Iiizumi-Kannon Temple in Odarwara. Daruma dolls represent Bodhidharma, the founder of Chan Buddhism in China (known as Ze…