Snowy village
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
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.
More Prints by Kotozuka Eiichi
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
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Snowy village was created by Kotozuka Eiichi (琴塚英一) in Not set.
Snowy village depicts snow scenes and village scenes.