Canal snow
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
$400–$3,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Okuyama's prints are relatively affordable. Bold, well-preserved examples are most valued.
"Canal Snow" captures the quiet drama of a Japanese waterway under snow — the canal's still surface reflecting a sky heavy with clouds, its banks smoothed to white curves, the familiar features of the landscape made strange and beautiful by their white covering. Snow in Japanese art was a subject with profound aesthetic tradition, the blank white carrying associations with both physical beauty and existential silence. Okuyama's treatment of canal and snow would have drawn on his northern upbringing in Yamagata Prefecture, where winter's weight was a lived experience.
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.
Canal snow was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Canal snow depicts snow scenes and rivers & lakes.
