I bought this about 30 years ago just cause I liked it.
Now I have figured out that it was created by a great Japanese artist.
Lucky me, I got to enjoy it for years!
This is signed "Sekino" in pencil and has a chop mark by the signature.
The frame measures about 24.5" x 18.5"
Here is a little info I found on the web:
In 1958, he traveled to the U. S. where he taught at Pratt Institute. In 1963, at the invitation of Gordon Gilkey, he taught at Oregon State University and also accepted an appointment to the faculty of the University of Washington. He was back in the campus at Oregon State in 1969 the year after he finished his celebrated portrait of Munakata. In 1974, his Tokaido Road series was completed, after fifteen years work and was exhibited at Isetan Department Store. One year later the Tokaido prints were shown for the first time in the U. S. at the University of Oregon Museum of Art alongside the museum’s collection of the Tokaido prints by Hiroshig