February
Description
The second month of the traditional calendar — corresponding roughly to late January into February — was the deepest of winter, when the Japanese landscape settled into its most austere palette of bare branches, grey skies, and compressed cold. Nishijima renders this seasonal moment in a scene of traditional architecture that embodies the stripped-down beauty of the winter month: the reduced colors, the clean lines of rooftiles under heavy sky, the sense of a world in suspension between one season and the next.
More Prints by Katsuyuki Nishijima
More Urban Scenes Prints
A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Kiyonaga's Pipe (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Kiyonaga no kiseru)
Woodblock print
View of Kabuki Theater from Matsuya (Ginza Matsuya yori Kabukiza), no. 3 from the series "Pictures of Ginza, First Series (Gashu Ginza dai isshu)"
1928
Color lithograph
Distant View of Mitsukoshi Movie Theater in Shinjuku from the Sixth Floor of Hoteiya (Hoteiya rokkai kara Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Musashi no kan enbo zu), no. 1 from the series "Scenery of Shinjuku (Gashu Shinjuku fukei)"
1930
Color lithograph
Spring Dusk at the Tōshō Shrine in Ueno
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Frequently Asked Questions
February was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
February depicts urban scenes, architecture, and winter.