Okuirise in Winter
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- japancoll
Description
The Okuirise area — upper Oirase — is depicted in deep winter, the stream running beneath ice and snow, the forest bare and laden with frost. Henmi's winter treatments of this landscape explore the opposite extreme from his spring compositions of the same place: all the lush growth stripped away, the essential structure of rock, water, and bare tree revealed beneath the snow. The winter Oirase subjects demand graphic solutions for depicting ice and frozen motion in a medium that is itself static.
More Prints by Henmi Takashi
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
Okuirise in Winter was created by Henmi Takashi (逸見享).
Okuirise in Winter depicts snow scenes and winter.