Snowy Dawn at the Port of Ogi, Sado, from the series Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series

This print from the Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series depicts Ogi Port on Sado Island at the transitional moment between night and morning during snowfall. The port's working infrastructure — fishing vessels at anchor, rope-wound bollards, stacked nets under snow — provides the foreground subject, while the sky carries the composition's emotional weight through carefully graded bokashi. Sado Island, historically significant as a site of imperial and political exile, sits in the Sea of Japan and receives heavy snowfall from Siberian weather systems. Hasui traveled to Sado specifically to sketch; his site studies captured the quality of light and the spatial character of particular harbors before he translated them into print designs. Multiple catalogue records for similar titles within the same series reflect the complexity of Watanabe's publishing records and the existence of closely related impressions documenting the same location under nearly identical conditions.