Shinobazu Pond in Snow
- Date:
- 1930
- 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.
Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Park — the partially naturalized pond at the center of Tokyo's cultural district — is here rendered in snow, the pond's surface and surrounding trees whitened by winter. Hiratsuka's 1930 color woodblock gives the scene an unusual softness, the snow's accumulation on branches and lotus stems providing a counterpoint to his usual graphic austerity. The pond's lotus blooms in summer; in winter, the empty stems persist.
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.
Shinobazu Pond in Snow was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1930.
Shinobazu Pond in Snow depicts snow scenes and rivers & lakes.
