Canal snow
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Description
"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.
More Prints by Gihachiro Okuyama
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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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Canal snow was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Canal snow depicts snow scenes and rivers & lakes.