Snow in the Country
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
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.
A rural landscape under snow — farmhouses, fields, and trees all covered by a substantial fall that simplified the countryside into a composition of white surfaces and dark tree-lines. Shotei's snow-in-the-country scenes captured the particular quality of snowfall in agricultural Japan, where the elimination of boundaries between field and field path, between garden and lane, created a temporary landscape of unusual visual unity. The [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) sky above the snow-covered scene suggests the continued possibility of more snow to come.
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 in the Country was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Snow in the Country uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
Snow in the Country was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Snow in the Country depicts snow scenes.
