Snow on Temple Roofs
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$1,000–$8,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Miller's limited output (she died at 48) and her unique position as a Western woman working in Japanese technique make her prints collectible.
A woodblock print depicting temple roofs blanketed in fresh snow, a subject that allowed Lilian May Miller to explore the contrast between the angular geometry of traditional Japanese architecture and the soft, formless accumulation of snowfall. The curved eaves and layered rooflines of a Buddhist or Shinto temple complex become sculptural forms under their white covering, each ridge and gutter outlined by the snow. Miller's years living in Japan gave her intimate familiarity with how winter transforms the built landscape, muffling sound and simplifying color to a palette of white, gray, and the dark wood exposed where snow has slid away.
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.
Snow on Temple Roofs was created by Lillian May Miller.
Snow on Temple Roofs depicts snow scenes and temples & shrines.
