Snowstorm
by Ito Shinsui
- Date:
- c.1940
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 41.6 × 25.7 cm
- Publisher:
by Ito Shinsui
Though best known for bijin-ga, Shinsui also produced landscape prints of great refinement. These typically trade at lower prices than his figure subjects but attract collectors seeking less competition.
A snowstorm—more violent and dramatic than the quiet snowfall scenes that dominate Shinsui's winter bijin-ga—fills this circa-1940 landscape with driven, diagonal precipitation and the flattened visibility of a true blizzard. The bokashi gradations build the compressed atmospheric depth of a snowstorm, where the horizon disappears and the world reduces to immediate foreground against white obscurity. The work's date, circa 1940, places it at the beginning of Japan's most intense wartime period, and the storm's erasure of landscape may carry unintended historical resonance.
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.
Snowstorm was created by Ito Shinsui (伊東深水) in c.1940.
Snowstorm uses Bokashi, on woodblock print, ink and color on paper.
Snowstorm was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (c.1940).
Snowstorm depicts snow scenes.
Snowstorm measures 41.6 × 25.7 cm (Oban format).
