Snow at Ginkakuji Temple

A second composition or impression in Hasui's series of Ginkakuji snow views, this print records the temple's garden precinct in Kyoto's Higashiyama district under winter conditions. The Silver Pavilion (Ginkaku) itself — a two-story wooden hall never actually covered in silver as originally planned — and the surrounding moss garden and sand sculpture garden offered Hasui a range of textures and tonal contrasts to render through multi-block woodblock printing. Snow would have unified these varied surfaces under a common white while simultaneously accentuating the geometry of the kogetsudai sand cone and the horizontal lines of the garden walls. Variations between the numbered Ginkakuji impressions in Hasui's output likely reflect differences in composition angle, snow depth depicted, or atmospheric conditions, as well as the technical variations inherent in different production runs from the Watanabe workshop.