Snowy village
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$200–$2,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Kotozuka's Kyoto prints are popular and affordable. Seasonal temple scenes and garden views are most sought after.
A snowy village — the thatched or tiled rooftops of a traditional Japanese settlement blanketed in winter snow, the streets narrowed by drifts, smoke rising from unseen interior fires — provides Kotozuka with a subject of rural warmth within winter severity. Village snow scenes in Japanese printmaking balance the cold of the season against the implied warmth of inhabited space: the smoke, the lit windows, the tracks of passage through the snow all testify to human life continuing in the cold. This print represents his engagement with rural subjects outside Kyoto.
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.
Snowy village was created by Kotozuka Eiichi (琴塚英一) in Not set.
Snowy village depicts snow scenes and village scenes.
