Snowy village - woodblock
by Ito Nisaburo
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Ito Nisaburo
$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 in woodblock — a finished woodblock version of the snowy village subject, complementing the other version in the collection. The two snowy village prints may depict different settlements or the same village from different perspectives or in different stages of snowfall. The woodblock medium's capacity for rich darks and precise white areas — achieved through the absence of printing on those areas of the washi paper — makes it particularly suited to snow scene depiction, where the interplay of covered and uncovered surfaces is the fundamental compositional logic.
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 - woodblock was created by Ito Nisaburo (伊藤仁三郎).
Snowy village - woodblock depicts snow scenes and village scenes.
