Snow at Zojoji Temple — 増上寺の雪

A further impression in the 増上寺の雪 group, this print reflects the sustained publisher interest in Hasui's Zojoji snow composition across multiple decades of production. The composition's durability as a commercial subject owes partly to the site's cultural resonance—Zojoji was the funerary temple of six Tokugawa shoguns—and partly to Hasui's success in capturing the particular quality of snowfall in an urban temple precinct. The oban sheet would show the gate's tiled and thatched upper stories receding into a snowy sky, with the lower register anchored by the stone-paved approach and the gate's massive red columns. Variation across impressions of this design appears primarily in the sky bokashi depth and the ink saturation of the key block lines, which grow finer and more precise in later printings as carvers worked from worn blocks or cut replacement blocks. This impression's placement within the sequence of states would require direct comparison with dated impressions.