$500–$5,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
"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.
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.
SNOW SCENE was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
SNOW SCENE depicts snow scenes.
