Snow at Akabane
by Ito Takashi
- Medium:
- Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
- Image courtesy of
- Saru Gallery
Description
A snow-covered wooden building with glowing amber-lit windows and a smoking chimney sits on a dock at the center of a river or bay, surrounded by moored rowboats and bare mooring poles dusted with snow; a wooden footbridge crosses the water in the foreground. The scene is rendered in deep indigo blues with falling snow depicted as scattered white dots, a pale glowing lamp beside the building, and two small boats with figures visible on the water in the distance under a grey-blue horizon. Snow blankets the roofs, dock, and foreground bank in white, evoking a quiet winter evening.
More Prints by Ito Takashi
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
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Frequently Asked Questions
Snow at Akabane was created by Ito Takashi (伊東孝).
Snow at Akabane depicts snow scenes.