True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Koume Towpath in the Snow
by Inoue Yasuji
by Inoue Yasuji
$1,000–$8,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Inoue's Meiji-era Tokyo views, influenced by his teacher Kiyochika, have both artistic and historical value. His early death makes works scarce.
The Koume towpath in snow was a beloved winter subject in Edo topographic imagery, the long embankment beside the Sumida River in the eastern lowlands transformed by snowfall into a monochrome landscape of white and gray. Yasuji depicts this classic scene with his characteristic restraint, resisting the temptation to dramatize the weather effects and instead rendering the snow with a quiet, clear observation that gives the composition its particular freshness. The towpath, used by workers hauling river barges, becomes under snow a meditative passage through the winter city.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Koume Towpath in the Snow was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Koume Towpath in the Snow depicts snow scenes, set at Tokyo.