This evocative winter landscape features a bridge buried under snow, likely set in a Kyoto or rural Japanese setting. Without a specific temple or shrine as the focal point, the composition emphasizes Asano's mastery of seasonal atmosphere over architectural documentation. Prices range from $150-$450, making it one of his more affordable snow scenes.
Snow Covered Bridge presents a traditional Japanese stone or timber bridge — a standard feature of garden and landscape design — under the transforming weight of winter snowfall. The bridge's structure, normally defined by the precision of its arch or the regularity of its planking, is softened and rounded by accumulated snow, its form suggesting the original construction while replacing its characteristic sharpness with the organic irregularity of frozen precipitation. Asano renders this transformation with care for how snow changes the visual character of architectural structures he knew well in their unsnowed state.
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.
Snow Covered Bridge was created by Takeji Asano (浅野竹二).
Snow Covered Bridge uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on woodblock print.
Snow Covered Bridge was published by Unsodo.
Snow Covered Bridge depicts snow scenes and bridges.
