Girl with snow rabbit

A winter genre scene of a child with a yukiusagi, the traditional snow rabbit shaped from packed snow with nanten berries for eyes and bamboo or pine leaves for ears. The print combines two of Kasamatsu's recurring subjects — snow scenes and figures — drawing on the seasonal vocabulary of shin-hanga while attending to specific cultural detail. Rendering snow in mokuhanga typically uses the unprinted washi as the white field, with sumi outlines and selective color carrying the figure and the rabbit; bokashi suggests the soft modeling of snow surfaces and the muted winter light. Kasamatsu's snow prints, like his rain and night scenes, use weather as a unifying device that flattens the palette and harmonizes disparate elements within a single tonal envelope. The subject also sits within the long Edo-period tradition of children's seasonal play recorded in printed images.