Snow covered Entrance of Toshogu Shrine

The Tōshōgū Shrine in Ueno, dedicated to Tokugawa Ieyasu, presents its approach lined with stone lanterns and the ornate Karamon gate. Under fresh snowfall, Koizumi would have employed bokashi gradations to render the soft accumulations on the curved roof tiles, lantern caps, and pine boughs. The print falls within his One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo (Dai Tokyo Hyakkei) project, where shrine and temple precincts feature alongside modern bridges and waterfronts as anchors of the city's identity. Snow scenes recur across Koizumi's output -- they allowed him to demonstrate the technical reach of self-printed mokuhanga, where successive impressions of pale grey build the wet, weighted texture of new snow. The composition centers the shrine's vermillion and black architecture against muffled white surroundings, a chromatic strategy descended from Hiroshige's Edo snow scenes but tightened by Koizumi's Western-trained perspective.