Evening Snow at Terajima Village

A second impression of Hasui's Terajima Village snow scene, this print renders the same composition — low buildings, bare winter trees, and snow-covered ground under an evening sky — with the tonal variations inherent in hand-printed shin-hanga production. Hasui made Terajima, situated in the Sumida River district northeast of central Tokyo, a recurring subject in the early 1920s, drawn to its village atmosphere before rapid urbanization transformed the area. The quiet domestic scale of the scene, with no prominent monuments or celebrated views, reflects the shin-hanga movement's interest in intimate and transient moments in the Japanese landscape, using carefully layered water-based pigments on kozo-fiber washi to convey atmosphere over topographic specificity.