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SNOW SCENE by Fumio Kitaoka — Japanese Woodblock print

SNOW SCENE

by Fumio Kitaoka

Sōsaku-hanga
Snow Scenes
Medium:
Woodblock print
Edition:
Self-printed

Description

"SNOW SCENE" renders a winterscape with the direct, unmediated approach of the title itself — no specific location, no narrative context, just the visual reality of snow in landscape. Kitaoka's treatment uses the woodblock's capacity for clean tonal contrast to maximum effect: white snow against dark vegetation or earth, the simplified winter landscape reduced to its essential interplay of light and dark. The capital lettering of the title suggests an emphasis on the categorical nature of the subject — this is Snow Scene, definitive rather than particular.

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More Snow Scenes Prints

Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924 by Kanpo Yoshikawa

Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924

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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)" by Utagawa Hiroshige

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)"

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Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima) by Kawase Hasui

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Yuki no Miyajima

1929

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Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo by Kawase Hasui

Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo

1932

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Featured in Collections

Curated cross-cuts that include this print.

Sōsaku-Hanga: The Creative-Print Movement

Frequently Asked Questions

SNOW SCENE was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).

SNOW SCENE depicts snow scenes.