Winter Landscape
冬景色
- Date:
- c. 1936
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- mfa
Description
A crowd of figures in white hoods and dark, snow-dusted cloaks stands in a curved mass beneath a bare, snow-laden tree, its branches bent under white drifts against a mottled gray-brown sky flecked with falling snow. In the foreground, seen from behind, rows of spectators in white caps and dark coats watch two bare-legged children wrestling or playing on the ground, while a tall paper lantern inscribed with characters reading "浦佐文部" rises at right beside an angular yellow structure. The palette is limited to ochre, gray-brown, black, and white, giving the winter crowd scene a subdued, muted mood; this is Maekawa Senpan's 1936 color woodblock print *Winter Landscape*.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Winter Landscape (冬景色) was created by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆) in c. 1936.
Winter Landscape depicts landscapes and winter.