Large snowflakes

The title Large snowflakes suggests a print in which the snowfall itself functions as the principal compositional element, with individual flakes rendered at exaggerated scale rather than as fine dotting. In Japanese woodblock printmaking, falling snow is conventionally produced either by reserving small areas of unprinted washi against a dark or graded ground, or by overprinting white pigment from a separate block; flakes at this scale require enlarged reserves cut into the relevant blocks. Such treatments appear frequently in twentieth-century prints aimed at the international collector market. Without further documentation, it is unclear whether this print belongs to a numbered series or stands as an independent design. The presence of multiple impressions sharing this title within Takasawa Keiichi's documented work points either to repeated state variations or to several closely related compositions on the same theme — a familiar practice among twentieth-century printmakers working with weather and seasonal subjects.