Snow-
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$1,500–$12,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Shimura's refined bijin-ga have a devoted collector base. Earlier prints and rarer subjects command premiums.
Another of Shimura Tatsumi's snow-themed [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock prints, this composition places a woman within a winter landscape where falling snow reshapes the visible world. The white flakes accumulate on surfaces and float through the air, creating layers of visual texture that Shimura uses to build depth and atmosphere. The figure's dark hair and colored kimono become the composition's warmest elements, standing out against the pervasive whiteness. Shimura produced multiple snow scenes throughout his career, each exploring different aspects of the encounter between a beautiful woman and winter weather, finding in repetition not redundancy but refinement.
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- was created by Shimura Tatsumi (志村立美) in Not set.
Snow- was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (Not set).
Snow- depicts snow scenes.
