Snow Scene
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
"Snow Scene" is a general winter landscape — snow over an unspecified Japanese setting — rendered through Okuyama's careful observational approach to the seasonal transformation of familiar subjects. Snow gave Okuyama access to the spare, concentrated compositional language that he associated with his northern upbringing in Yamagata Prefecture, where winter was a dominant seasonal experience rather than an occasional visitor. The simplified palette and formal clarity of a snow scene connected his personal experience to the broader tradition of Japanese winter landscape art.
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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Frequently Asked Questions
Snow Scene was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Snow Scene depicts snow scenes.