Ochanomizu yuki
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- British Museum
Description
Ochanomizu yuki — "Snow at Ochanomizu" — depicts the Kanda River gorge in winter, the rocky cut through which the river flows covered in snow and the bare trees weighted with white. This is one of several Kiyochika prints of the Ochanomizu district in different seasons and weather conditions, documenting a Tokyo site that was both scenic and distinctive — its stone-walled gorge unlike anything else in the flat, riverine city. The winter stillness of the deserted waterway brings out the site's geological character.
More Prints by Kobayashi Kiyochika
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A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Kiyonaga's Pipe (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Kiyonaga no kiseru)
Woodblock print
View of Kabuki Theater from Matsuya (Ginza Matsuya yori Kabukiza), no. 3 from the series "Pictures of Ginza, First Series (Gashu Ginza dai isshu)"
1928
Color lithograph
Distant View of Mitsukoshi Movie Theater in Shinjuku from the Sixth Floor of Hoteiya (Hoteiya rokkai kara Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Musashi no kan enbo zu), no. 1 from the series "Scenery of Shinjuku (Gashu Shinjuku fukei)"
1930
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Spring Dusk at the Tōshō Shrine in Ueno
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Frequently Asked Questions
Ochanomizu yuki was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親).
Ochanomizu yuki depicts urban scenes, snow scenes, and rivers & lakes.