No Series House In The Snowy Grip Of Winter
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- ukiyo-e.org
$1,000–$6,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Nishijima's nostalgic Japanese village scenes appeal to collectors worldwide. Limited editions maintain value well.
A traditional Japanese house held in the grip of deep winter: the snow-laden roof, the heavy eaves bearing their white burden, the windows sealed against the cold, the garden buried. Nishijima renders winter snowscapes with particular mastery — the simplification that heavy snowfall imposes on a complex architectural subject, reducing it to its essential forms, becomes a compositional advantage. The house under snow reads as both a specific dwelling and an archetype of shelter, the human structure persisting within the seasonal extreme that annually tests and renews the Japanese relationship with winter.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
No Series House In The Snowy Grip Of Winter was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
No Series House In The Snowy Grip Of Winter depicts snow scenes and winter.
