
This is a mokuhanga print of a a frozen waterfall, called Hossawa Falls.
- Image courtesy of
- Artist website (Jason Fujiwara)
Description
Hossawa Falls in Hinohara village, western Tokyo, is one of the few cataracts in the Kantō region that freezes solidly in mid-winter. Fujiwara's mokuhanga depicts the falls during this dormant phase, when the descending water has crystallized into a stationary column of ice flanked by snow-laden rock and vegetation. The subject sits within the meisho-e tradition of named landscape views while drawing on the winter-scene lineage running from Hiroshige's snowscapes through the shin-hanga generation. Rendering frozen water against surrounding stone and atmospheric haze suits mokuhanga's capacity for layered bokashi gradations and the cool palette achievable with water-based mineral pigments brushed on washi and impressed by baren. The print fits Fujiwara's documentary practice of photographing locations during travels through Japan, then translating those observations into hand-printed images that function as a visual diary. Hossawa lies within a day's reach of Tokyo, making it a plausible site for the direct field observation that anchors his broader body of landscape work.
More Prints by Jason Fujiwara
More Snow Scenes Prints
Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
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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
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Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
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Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
1932
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This is a mokuhanga print of a a frozen waterfall, called Hossawa Falls. was created by Jason Fujiwara (藤原ジェイソン).
This is a mokuhanga print of a a frozen waterfall, called Hossawa Falls. depicts snow scenes and waterfalls.


