Snow at Kinkakuji
by Miki Suizan
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
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.
Another rendering of Kinkakuji in winter, this print takes a slightly different vantage point or atmospheric condition than Suizan's companion snow scene of the Golden Pavilion. The Rokuonji temple complex, of which Kinkakuji is the central structure, was a subject Suizan returned to repeatedly, studying how weather and light altered the relationship between the gold-clad building and its carefully composed garden setting. Snow at Kinkakuji is not merely picturesque; it creates a genuine chromatic transformation, muting the pavilion's gilded surfaces and replacing the garden's green palette with monochrome white. Suizan exploits the woodblock medium's ability to render this transformation through the physical absence of ink on paper, using the white of the washi itself as his primary tone. The surrounding pines, weighed down by accumulated snow, bend into forms distinct from their warm-weather silhouettes.
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 Kinkakuji was created by Miki Suizan (三木翠山).
Snow at Kinkakuji was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Snow at Kinkakuji depicts snow scenes and temples & shrines.
