AWAYUKI (light snow)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Watanabe Print
- Image courtesy of
- Watanabe Print
Description
A wooden Japanese townhouse (machiya) with a lattice-slat facade and shuttered windows is shown under falling snow, its dark timber contrasting with white snowflakes scattered across a pale blue-grey sky. A round paper lantern marked with a single character hangs beside the entrance, and a low wooden barrel or bucket sits at the base of the building near the doorway. The palette is muted—browns, tans, and soft blues—rendering a quiet, snow-hushed street scene with no figures present. Woodblock print, "Awayuki (Light Snow)," by Katsuyuki Nishijima.
More Prints by Katsuyuki Nishijima
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
AWAYUKI (light snow) was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
AWAYUKI (light snow) depicts snow scenes.