LIght snow
Description
Light snow — not the heavy accumulation of Nishijima's deep-winter scenes but the first tentative fall, or a modest overnight dusting — transforms a traditional townscape with the delicate quality of barely-begun winter. The partial snowfall reveals the architectural structure more clearly than heavy accumulation would, letting the dark timber and tile show through even as the white begins to gather in corners and on roof ridges. This transitional winter condition, caught between autumn and full winter, is one of Nishijima's most atmospheric subjects.
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
Woodblock print
Frequently Asked Questions
LIght snow was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
LIght snow depicts snow scenes.