$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.
Spring Snow — haru yuki — is one of the most poetically charged subjects in the Japanese seasonal calendar: late snowfall arriving after the plum and early cherry have already bloomed, creating the paradox of winter's persistence against spring's advance. Spring snow is associated with a sweet melancholy — the blossoms bent under wet white weight, the color of petals against the grey sky of a late spring storm. Nisaburo's print likely captures this atmospheric moment in a specific Kyoto or Nara setting where temple architecture and spring blossoms are framed by late snowfall.
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.
Spring Snow was created by Ito Nisaburo (伊藤仁三郎).
Spring Snow depicts snow scenes and spring.
