Kinkaku-ji in Snow, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)

Kinkaku-ji, the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in northwestern Kyoto, presents a compositionally distinctive subject for snow-scene printing: the gilded three-story pavilion set against a pale winter sky and reflected in the partially frozen surface of Kyokochi pond. Snow-scene prints in the meisho-e tradition typically reserve the white of the washi support for snow accumulation, using the unpainted paper surface itself as the primary snow color while surrounding areas receive pale blue-grey bokashi gradations for sky and ice. Domoto's nihonga training, which emphasized the interaction of ground and applied pigment, would have translated naturally into this technical convention. The contrast between the pavilion's warm gold tone — achieved through layered yellow and ochre printing — and the cold whites and blues of the surrounding snow would be a central compositional concern. The reflection in the pond's surface, if included, requires careful bilateral registration across multiple blocks.