Artist
Kinchodo Sekiga
Kinchodo Sekiga is a Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Kinchodo Sekiga spent his life carving images into cherry blocks in a tiny Edo alley, his hands stained purple from ink and plum wine. He never signed his prints, calling them “just the night’s work” — but collectors later noticed how his dragon scales looked like wet river stones under moonlight. Look up his *Untitled* (1780–1790) in Gallery Tiles; the dragon curls so softly it feels alive, ready to slip off the paper into your room.
Works by Kinchodo Sekiga
Collections represented
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the fourth-largest museum in the world and the largest art…