Kambara: Deep Snow
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Typical Price
$500–$6,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Sekino's prolific output keeps prices accessible. Portrait prints are most collected.
Description
The station of Kambara under heavy snowfall — historically one of the most dramatic snow subjects in the entire Tokaido print tradition, Hiroshige's version of this station being among the most celebrated images in Japanese art. Sekino's treatment brings his own graphic vocabulary to a subject weighted with art-historical precedent, using the expansive white field of deep snow to test the relationship between the blank paper ground and the dark lines of architecture and figure.
More Prints by Jun'ichiro Sekino
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
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Kambara: Deep Snow was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Kambara: Deep Snow depicts snow scenes.