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](/glossary/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.
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.
Snow covered Entrance of Toshogu Shrine was created by Kishio Koizumi (小泉癸巳男).
Snow covered Entrance of Toshogu Shrine depicts snow scenes and temples & shrines.