Snow at Night (Yoru no yuki)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
Snow falls at night — "Yoru no yuki" — and the composition reduces the world to the deepest contrasts: the white of the falling and accumulated snow against the black of the night sky, the dark of buildings and trees against the pale ground. Shotei's bokashi treatment of the night sky creates the graduated darkness from which the snow falls, the flakes appearing as light rather than precipitation against the deep nocturnal background. The combination of night and snow was among the most demanding atmospheric subjects in the woodblock print tradition.
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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
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Frequently Asked Questions
Snow at Night (Yoru no yuki) was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Snow at Night (Yoru no yuki) uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
Snow at Night (Yoru no yuki) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Snow at Night (Yoru no yuki) depicts snow scenes and night scenes.