Snow Hood
by Ito Shinsui
- Date:
- 1950
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper with mica
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 47.5 × 33.3 cm
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Description
A woman drawn deeply into her hood against the winter cold, the garment framing her face and creating the composed, almost monumental quality that distinguished Shinsui's snow bijin-ga. Produced in 1950 with a mica-enriched ground, Snow Hood belongs to the postwar period when Shinsui continued refining the seasonal beauty print he had mastered decades earlier. The hood—a simple cotton or silk cowl worn to protect against snow—becomes in his hands an architectural element that focuses attention on the woman's expression.
More Prints by Ito Shinsui
More Snow Scenes Prints
Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
Woodblock print
The Compound of the Tenman Shrine at Kameido in the Snow (Kameido Tenmangu keidai no yuki), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
1932
Woodblock print
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Frequently Asked Questions
Snow Hood was created by Ito Shinsui (伊東深水) in 1950.
Snow Hood uses Bokashi, on woodblock print, ink and color on paper with mica.
Snow Hood was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1950).
Snow Hood depicts snow scenes.
Snow Hood measures 47.5 × 33.3 cm (Oban format).