#65 Lumberyards at Kiba in the snow
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- The Art of Japan
Number 65 in the One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo series renders the lumber district of Kiba, in the low-lying eastern wards of Tokyo, under snowfall. Kiba's economy depended on the network of canals that allowed timber to be floated and stored across the waterlogged district, and the geometric piles of cut lumber stacked along the waterways provided Koizumi with strong horizontal and vertical compositional elements. Snow unifies the scene tonally, bleaching the pale [washi](/glossary/washi) surface across rooftops, lumber stacks, and frozen canal water alike. The subject belongs to a tradition of snow views — yukimi — with precedents in Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, but Koizumi's self-printed technique gives his snow passages a directness absent from collaboratively produced prints; he controlled the pressure and pigment density himself across every impression.
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Color woodblock print; oban
![Kiba Lumberyard along the River at Fukugawa (New Edition) [Fukagawa-ku, kiba no kawasuji (shinpan)], from the series "One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga)" by Kishio Koizumi](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/f6380c15-6d23-c26a-899d-08ead4db792b/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1940
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
#65 Lumberyards at Kiba in the snow was created by Kishio Koizumi (小泉癸巳男).
#65 Lumberyards at Kiba in the snow depicts snow scenes.