$200–$2,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Ito Nisaburo's Kyoto prints are popular and accessible. Night scenes, snow views, and cherry blossom compositions command premiums.
Snowy Village — a composition depicting a traditional Japanese settlement under snow, the thatched or tiled roofs bearing white loads that alter the usual silhouette of the buildings. Snow scenes (yukimi or setsu) in Japanese landscape art carry associations of stillness, isolation, and a beauty that is heightened by the knowledge of cold and hardship beneath the aesthetic surface. Nisaburo's snowy village prints — he produced multiple versions — capture the specific quietude of rural Japan under winter's transformation.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Snowy village was created by Ito Nisaburo (伊藤仁三郎).
Snowy village depicts snow scenes and village scenes.
