Snow at Shinobazu
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
A print depicting snow at Shinobazu Pond — the famous lotus pond in Ueno Park transformed by winter into a different kind of landscape, its summer abundance of lotus and waterfowl replaced by the quiet austerity of snow and ice. Snow scenes at famous places were a well-established genre in Japanese print art, and Shinobazu Pond's winter state offered Chikanobu a subject that combined topographic specificity with the aesthetic pleasure of winter scenery. The print likely depicts figures bundled against the cold viewing the snowy pond from the surrounding banks.
More Prints by Toyohara Chikanobu
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
Snow at Shinobazu was created by Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延).
Snow at Shinobazu depicts snow scenes.