Snow at Higashiyama
by Miki Suizan
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Miki Suizan
$800–$6,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Miki Suizan's Kyoto maiko prints are the most popular. Condition and subject matter are key value factors.
Snow blankets the Higashiyama hills on Kyoto's eastern edge, transforming the familiar ridge of temple rooftops and forested slopes into a study in white, grey, and muted green. Higashiyama, literally "Eastern Mountain," is the geographic spine against which much of Kyoto's cultural landscape is arranged, home to Kiyomizu-dera, Ginkakuji, and dozens of smaller temples and shrines. Suizan depicts the snowfall as a unifying force that softens architectural detail and blurs the boundary between built and natural environments. The woodblock printing leaves large areas of paper uninked to serve as snow, while the structures and tree forms emerge as darker shapes beneath the white cover. This economy of means is one of woodblock's great strengths for snow scenes: the paper itself becomes the primary visual element, with ink and pigment playing a supporting role.
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 at Higashiyama was created by Miki Suizan (三木翠山).
Snow at Higashiyama was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Snow at Higashiyama depicts snow scenes.
