Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924

Dated 1924 and titled Yamato bashi no yukibare (Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge), this Taishō-period landscape depicts a Kyoto riverside scene in the transitional moment when snowfall has ended and clearing skies allow winter sunlight to illuminate snow-covered surfaces. Yamato Bridge spans the Kamo River in the southeastern part of Kyoto, and its depiction situates the print within the [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) tradition of celebrated Kyoto landmarks. The yukibare moment — fair weather following snow — was a favored subject in Japanese landscape prints because it combines the rarity of accumulated snow with the warmth and clarity of returning sunlight, creating optically rich conditions of reflection and shadow. Yoshikawa's technique would exploit the [washi](/glossary/washi)'s capacity to receive gradated blue-white tones for snow surfaces and cold sky passages, while the bridge's wooden or stone structure provides geometric contrast to the irregular terrain of the riverbank. The 1924 date places the work in the productive middle period of Yoshikawa's career.