Winter
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Art of Japan
Winter — as a season, a condition, and an atmospheric subject — is condensed in this undated woodblock print into a generalised landscape of cold and stillness. Without a specific location title, the print functions as a seasonal study: bare trees, snow-covered ground, a sky closed over in grey — the essential visual vocabulary of winter in the Japanese landscape tradition. Kiyochika's winter prints range from the dramatically specific (named Tokyo sites in named snowstorms) to this more abstract seasonal evocation, demonstrating his command of winter imagery across the full tonal register.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Winter was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親).
Winter depicts snow scenes and winter.
