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SEKINO, JUNICHIRO—BIOGRAPHY
1914-1988 Born Aomori.
From boyhood knew Munakata Shiko as a charismatic painter
a few years his senior. Sekino made woodblock prints with
friends while still in middle school.
Studied etching in Aomori with Kon Junzo, contributed to
Chokokuto in 1932, shin hanga in 1935. Exhibited with Nihon
Hanga Kyokai from 1932. Moved to Tokyo in 1939 after winning
a 1936 Teiten prize for an etching. Studied etching at Etching
Institute of Nishida Takeo and oil painting and drawing
at a private painting school.
Studied woodblock with Onchi Koshiro and Maekawa Senpan
for whom he worked from to time as a printer. Became a member
of the Nihon Hanga Kyokai in 1938 and
Kokugakai in 1940. Contributed to every set of Ichimokushu.
Represented at International competitions at Tokyo, Northwest,
Ljubljana, and elsewhere.
Won wide acclaim in the U.S. for moku-hanga. Traveled in
the United States in 1958 under auspices of the Japan-America
Society; taught at Oregon State University in 1963. Taught
at Kobe University in 1965; awarded medal by the Imperial
Household Agency in 1981. Sekino was a prolific printmaker
in styles ranging from detailed portraits in the 1940s and
early 1950s to semiabstract prints with greater emphasis
on pattern and design after the mid-1950s. Among his late
works are: “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido”,
“Collection of Aomori Folk Toys”, “Old
Capital” and “Prints of the Narrow Road to the
Deep North”.
Taken from: Guide to Modem Japanese Woodblock
Prints 1900-1975 by Helen Merrit and Nanako Yamada
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