Takasegawa-Winter
- Date:
- 1990
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 57.2 × 30.5 cm
- Source:
The Takasegawa canal in winter completes Karhu's 1990 seasonal [triptych](/glossary/triptych) of the waterway, the bare cherry tree branches now creating a graphic web of dark lines over the grey winter canal. Winter strips the canal of both the blossoms of spring and the leafy canopy of summer, exposing the underlying structure of the scene — the branch patterns, the canal walls, the reflections in still winter water. Karhu finds in this reduction to structure the most austere and formally interesting of his three seasonal views.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Takasegawa-Winter was created by Clifton Karhu in 1990.
Takasegawa-Winter depicts snow scenes and winter.
Takasegawa-Winter measures 57.2 × 30.5 cm (Oban format).
