No. 10 - Snow - 雪
- Date:
- 1929
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
This is among Kotondo's most celebrated compositions. Kotondo created only 21 bijin-ga designs (1927–1933), and the original woodblocks were destroyed before WWII, making any original period impression extraordinarily rare. "Kamisuki (Hair Combing)" set the artist record at $72,500 at Christie's New York in 2019.
A woman stands in a snowfall, the flakes falling against a ground rendered in cool bokashi gradations of blue and grey. Numbered among Kotondo's core bijin-ga designs, the Snow print from 1929 places a composed figure within winter's sensory field — the hush of falling snow, the muffled quality of winter air, the particular kind of solitude that a snowfall creates. The diagonal lines of snow across the composition give the image a quiet dynamism.
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.
No. 10 - Snow - 雪 was created by Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人) in 1929.
No. 10 - Snow - 雪 uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
No. 10 - Snow - 雪 was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1929).
No. 10 - Snow - 雪 depicts snow scenes.
