Shotei's landscapes are his most widely available works. Signed lifetime editions with strong color and condition represent good collector value. Post-earthquake reprints lacking signatures and seals are common and trade at lower prices.
Mount Fuji in heavy snow reduces the volcanic cone to its most fundamental form — a white triangle against a pale grey or blue sky, all surface detail buried under the accumulated snowfall. Shotei's snow Fuji compositions approach the abstraction that the mountain's geometric profile always implied, the seasonal transformation stripping away the texture of rock and vegetation to leave pure shape. The [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradation of sky and snow merges upper and lower zones into a composition of extraordinary simplicity.
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.
Fuji in Snow was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Fuji in Snow uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
Fuji in Snow was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Fuji in Snow depicts landscapes, snow scenes, and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.
