Winter
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Art of Japan
Description
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.
More Prints by Kobayashi Kiyochika
More Snow Scenes Prints
Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
Woodblock print
The Compound of the Tenman Shrine at Kameido in the Snow (Kameido Tenmangu keidai no yuki), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
1932
Woodblock print
Frequently Asked Questions
Winter was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親).
Winter depicts snow scenes and winter.