$300–$3,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Iwata's stylish modern women prints bridge illustration and fine art. Original prints command more than reproductions.
Snowstorm intensifies the winter subject of Iwata's Blizzard into an even more encompassing meteorological event. The [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock print depicts snow not as picturesque dusting but as a force that transforms the visible world, blurring outlines and reducing the landscape to essential shapes. Iwata must negotiate the tension between the woodblock medium's precision and the snowstorm's obliteration of precision, using carved lines and registered colors to evoke a scene defined by the absence of clear edges. The result is a print that uses order to depict disorder.
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.
Snowstorm was created by Sentaro Iwata (岩田専太郎).
Snowstorm depicts landscapes, snow scenes, and winter.
