by Kawase Hasui
From the unfinished series Twelve Months of Tokyo, this 1920 Taishô-period print depicts the Sanjûgen Canal in Tokyo under falling evening snow. Hasui frames the narrow waterway between embankments dusted white, likely with bare-branched trees and dim lantern light reflecting on the dark water below. The bosetsu (evening snow) subject allowed printmakers to contrast warm interior lamplight against blue-grey atmospheric washes built up through careful bokashi gradation. As an early entry in what would become a landmark series, the composition shows Hasui developing the meisho-e landscape tradition for a modern Tokyo audience, rendering a working urban canal with the same poetic attention traditionally reserved for celebrated scenic sites.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Evening Snow at Sanjûgen Canal (Sanjûgenbori no bosetsu), from the unfinished series Twelve Months of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûnikagetsu), Taishô period, dated 1920 was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水).
Yes — Evening Snow at Sanjûgen Canal (Sanjûgenbori no bosetsu), from the unfinished series Twelve Months of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûnikagetsu), Taishô period, dated 1920 is part of the Twelve Months of Tokyo series by Kawase Hasui.
Evening Snow at Sanjûgen Canal (Sanjûgenbori no bosetsu), from the unfinished series Twelve Months of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûnikagetsu), Taishô period, dated 1920 depicts snow scenes.
