Koshihara Snow-Kyoto
- Date:
- 1974
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 40.6 × 40.5 cm
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Description
The Koshihara district of Kyoto under snow is Karhu's subject in this 1974 print, the traditional machiya townhouses and narrow streets transformed by the white into something austere and quiet. Snow prints were among Karhu's most technically demanding works, requiring careful management of the white of the paper — left unprinted to represent snow's brightness — against the darker tones of wet timber, tile, and stone. The Koshihara neighborhood provided a residential Kyoto streetscape far from the tourist circuit.
More Prints by Clifton Karhu
More Snow Scenes Prints
Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
Woodblock print
The Compound of the Tenman Shrine at Kameido in the Snow (Kameido Tenmangu keidai no yuki), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
1932
Woodblock print
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Frequently Asked Questions
Koshihara Snow-Kyoto was created by Clifton Karhu in 1974.
Koshihara Snow-Kyoto depicts snow scenes, set at Kyoto.
Koshihara Snow-Kyoto measures 40.6 × 40.5 cm (Oban format).