Rapids in Kunitachi Park in Towada in snow (Oirase)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Snow and night scenes traditionally command higher prices. Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
The Oirase Gorge stream, which flows from Lake Towada in Aomori prefecture through a forest of extraordinary beauty, is depicted in winter snowfall. The gorge was a celebrated natural landscape, its mossy boulders and overhanging trees creating a series of cascades and pools that artists visited from the Meiji period onward. In snow, the gorge becomes even more dramatic — the white of snow and water contrasting with the dark of rock and winter forest, all under a sky heavy with more snowfall.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Rapids in Kunitachi Park in Towada in snow (Oirase) was created by Henmi Takashi (逸見享).
Rapids in Kunitachi Park in Towada in snow (Oirase) depicts landscapes and snow scenes.
