Evening Snowfall at Kiyomizu Temple (Kiyomizudera no bosetsu)

Evening Snowfall at Kiyomizu Temple, published in 1950, depicts Kiyomizudera in Kyoto under falling evening snow — the temple's famous cantilevered wooden veranda visible through the veil of snow, the surrounding hillside trees white, the view of Kyoto below softened and obscured by the downfall. The bosetsu (evening snow) treatment of Kiyomizudera is one of Hasui's most contemplative Kyoto subjects, the temple's ancient structure receiving the snow with the same equanimity it has shown for fourteen centuries of Kyoto winters. The 1950 composition is among his most technically refined late-career treatments of this canonical subject.