Evening Snow Scene
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
A snow-hushed landscape — perhaps a village, garden, or road — settles into silence as evening deepens and flakes continue to fall. Kasamatsu was one of the foremost painters of snow atmosphere in twentieth-century Japanese printmaking, able to convey the specific quality of light that accumulates when white ground reflects white sky and all shadows turn blue. This evening scene captures the moment when snowfall transforms an ordinary scene into something luminous and still.
More Prints by Shiro Kasamatsu
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
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Frequently Asked Questions
Evening Snow Scene was created by Shiro Kasamatsu (笠松紫浪).
Evening Snow Scene was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Evening Snow Scene depicts snow scenes and night scenes.