Sekigahara in Snow (Yuki no Sekigahara)
- Date:
- 1976
- Medium:
- Etching
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$1,000–$6,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Tanaka's exquisite farmhouse etchings are beloved by collectors worldwide. Since his death in 2019, prices have firmed. Traditional thatched-roof subjects are most popular.
Sekigahara, site of the decisive 1600 battle that established the Tokugawa shogunate, is depicted here under a blanket of snow that stills the landscape and obscures the historical violence embedded in its geography. Tanaka's 1976 etching makes no reference to the battlefield's martial history; instead, snow transforms the wide valley floor into a study in quietude, the white expanse interrupted only by the dark verticals of trees and the low rooflines of surviving settlements.
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.
Sekigahara in Snow (Yuki no Sekigahara) was created by Tanaka Ryohei (田中良平) in 1976.
Sekigahara in Snow (Yuki no Sekigahara) uses Etching, on etching.
Sekigahara in Snow (Yuki no Sekigahara) depicts snow scenes.
