Evening Snow at Edogawa

One of several known impressions depicting evening snow along the Edogawa, this print shows Hasui's developed approach to the winter river landscape in the Tokyo suburbs. The seventh impression designation suggests a systematic cataloguing of printing states or edition sequences for this composition. Hasui's Edogawa snow prints characteristically feature a high proportion of sky to land, placing compositional weight in the graduated grey-blue bokashi of the overcast evening atmosphere rather than in foreground detail. Bare trees, embankment grasses pressed down under snow, and occasionally a solitary figure or distant farmhouse complete the scene. The subdued palette — white, grey, blue-grey, and the warm brown of dead vegetation — exemplifies the chromatic restraint Hasui applied to winter subjects.