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.
Spring Snow — "Shunsetsu" — falls on a landscape already beginning to show the first signs of the season's new growth, the wet heavy snow of March or April accumulating on branches just beginning to bud, on ground where early flowers were already emerging. This circa 1936 color woodblock print uses the contrast between the returning spring and the winter's parting gift to create an image of seasonal complexity — the year caught at exactly the moment when the struggle between cold and warmth was most evenly balanced.
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.
Spring Snow (Shunsetsu) was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭) in c. 1936.
Spring Snow (Shunsetsu) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Spring Snow (Shunsetsu) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (c. 1936).
Spring Snow (Shunsetsu) depicts snow scenes and spring.
