Fuji in snow
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Description
"Fuji in Snow" presents Japan's most iconic mountain in its winter aspect — the white cone of Fuji under a fresh covering of snow, a vision so familiar it has become almost abstract, the mountain reduced to its essential geometry of cone and white against sky. Yet Okuyama's sosaku-hanga treatment gives this most worn of Japanese subjects freshness through personal observation: the particular quality of light on snow at a particular time of day, the surrounding landscape's own winter character, the atmospheric conditions of a specific winter sky.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Fuji in snow was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Fuji in snow depicts landscapes, snow scenes, and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.