
Snow at Hachimangu shrine at Tsurugaoka in Kamakura
- Medium:
- Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
- Image courtesy of
- Saru Gallery
Description
This second version of Snow at Hachimangu shrine at Tsurugaoka in Kamakura presents the artist's return to a subject already treated in another sheet of the same title. Two versions of a single site occur regularly in modern Japanese printmaking, where artists may rework a composition with adjusted vantage, season, light, or color palette, or where a publisher may commission an additional design after the first proved popular. Differences between paired versions typically appear in the placement of figures along the approach, the framing of the torii or staircase, the proportion of sky to architecture, or the density of snow on the rooflines. The shared technical demands remain: precise registration of white snow masses against vermilion shrine architecture, bokashi gradation for the winter sky, and clear carving of detail in lantern caps, torii lintels, and stone steps. The presence of two snow versions of Tsurugaoka Hachimangu within Konishi Seiichiro's small recorded output suggests a sustained engagement with the site rather than an incidental commission.
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Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
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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)"
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Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
Yuki no Miyajima
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Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Snow at Hachimangu shrine at Tsurugaoka in Kamakura was created by Konishi Seiichiro (小西誠一郎).
Snow at Hachimangu shrine at Tsurugaoka in Kamakura depicts snow scenes and temples & shrines.


