Unknown, snowy hut
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
"Unknown, Snowy Hut" presents a small structure — a farmhouse, a watchman's hut, a tea house, or a shelter of some kind — under snow, its roof bearing the weight of accumulated winter as it sits in a white landscape. The snowy hut as subject invites meditation on warmth and cold, shelter and exposure, the human-made and the natural: the hut is small against the snow that surrounds it, but its presence asserts the human claim on a hostile landscape. Okuyama's rendering captures both the structural specificity of the small building and the overwhelming whiteness of its setting.
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More Snow Scenes Prints
Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
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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
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Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
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Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
1932
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Frequently Asked Questions
Unknown, snowy hut was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Unknown, snowy hut depicts snow scenes.