
This is a mokuhanga print of a a frozen waterfall, called Hossawa Falls.
- Image courtesy of
- Artist website (Jason Fujiwara)

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.
Woodblock print

c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban

Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban

1932
Woodblock print
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.