Yushima Tenjin in Snow
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
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.
Yushima Tenjin Shrine in snow — the same shrine that Shotei depicted in its spring and autumn characters — appears here transformed by winter, the stone steps and torii gates bearing their snow loads while the plum trees that are the shrine's signature feature stand bare or with the first blossoms pushing through despite the cold. The contrast between the snow-covered shrine and the emerging plum blossoms was a subject of particular aesthetic charge in the Japanese tradition, the first flowers asserting themselves against the last winter weather.
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.
Yushima Tenjin in Snow was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Yushima Tenjin in Snow uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
Yushima Tenjin in Snow was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Yushima Tenjin in Snow depicts snow scenes.
