$500–$4,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Maeda Masao's atmospheric mountain and landscape prints have a dedicated following among sosaku-hanga collectors.
Snow, Moon, and Cherries at Kiyomizudera — the three classic subjects of Japanese poetic beauty (setsu, getsu, ka: snow, moon, and flowers) combined in the setting of Kyoto's most famous hillside temple — is one of Maeda Masao's most thematically concentrated landscape subjects. The Kiyomizudera platform, projecting over the Otowa valley on its massive timber stilts, offered views of the cherry trees below and the city beyond, and the combination of flowering cherries, moonlit night, and snowfall — improbable in a single scene but possible in the poetic imagination — gave the composition its classical completeness.
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, Moon, and Cherries at Kiyomizu was created by Maeda Masao (前田政雄).
Snow, Moon, and Cherries at Kiyomizu depicts snow scenes, temples & shrines, and moonlight.
