Northern Winter - 北方の冬
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
Description
A northern winter — "北方の冬" — is rendered in this composition with the bleakness and bareness that distinguish winter in Japan's northern regions from the more atmospheric, picturesque winters of Kyoto or the Tokai coast. Yumeji made several works depicting the harsh north, and the starkness of those landscapes served as a visual analogy for his most intensely melancholy moods — the cold, the bare branches, the grey sky, the absence of color all corresponding to states of feeling as much as to meteorological facts.
More Prints by Takehisa Yumeji
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
Woodblock print
Frequently Asked Questions
Northern Winter - 北方の冬 was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Northern Winter - 北方の冬 depicts snow scenes and winter.