$300–$2,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Sano's landscape prints are modestly priced and accessible to collectors.
Heavy snow blankets a cluster of rural buildings tucked into a mountain valley, their rooftops carrying thick white loads that round every edge. Sano's 2002 [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock print builds the scene in contrasting layers: warm dark tones for the wooden structures and surrounding tree trunks, bright untouched paper for the accumulated snow, and cool grays for the overcast sky pressing down from above. The village appears both sheltered and buried, with footpaths reduced to narrow channels between drifts. There is no human figure visible, yet the lit windows and chimney smoke imply habitation, giving the print a quiet domesticity beneath its cold exterior. The mountain slopes rise steeply on all sides, enclosing the settlement in a bowl of winter silence.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Mountain Village in Snow was created by Sano Seiji (佐野精二) in 2002.
Mountain Village in Snow depicts landscapes, snow scenes, and mountains.
