Old Pagoda in Clearing Snow, Mount Koya
- Date:
- 1942
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$8,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: His enormous output (lived to 102) means most works are accessible. Early black-and-white prints are most valued.
A pagoda at Kōya-san in the snow — the mountain's sacred complex transformed by winter into a monochrome landscape that matches Hiratsuka's usual palette. The 1942 color woodblock renders the pagoda's characteristic curved eaves and multi-tiered silhouette against clearing snow, the color suggesting the cold blue light of a winter sky opening after snowfall. Mt. Kōya's pagodas were among his most frequently depicted architectural subjects.
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.
Old Pagoda in Clearing Snow, Mount Koya was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1942.
Old Pagoda in Clearing Snow, Mount Koya depicts snow scenes and pagodas.
