Snow, Aizu (B)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Typical Price
- Fine Aizu snow scene or winter landscape: $800–$3,000
- Good condition Tohoku landscape: $300–$1,000
- Standard edition: $200–$600
Description
Snow, Aizu (B) is one of the series variants exploring the deep winter of Saito's home region, distinguishing itself from the (A) and other versions through some difference of composition, scale, or colorway. The Aizu snow prints are ultimately about the transformation of a familiar landscape—farmhouses, paddies, pine groves—into pure white geometry, the accumulated snow erasing topography and architectural detail alike, leaving only the essential forms that define each structure against the white ground.
More Prints by Saito Kiyoshi
More Snow Scenes Prints
Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
Woodblock print
The Compound of the Tenman Shrine at Kameido in the Snow (Kameido Tenmangu keidai no yuki), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
1932
Woodblock print
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Snow, Aizu (B) was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Snow, Aizu (B) depicts snow scenes.