Snow at Sakurada
- Date:
- 1920s
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 25 × 18.3 cm
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
$1,000–$10,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Watanabe Seitei's kacho-e prints have seen increased market interest. His work influenced both Japanese and Western artists.
A 1920s woodblock print showing snow at Sakurada, a location in central Tokyo near the Imperial Palace moat and the site of the historic Sakuradamon Gate. Watanabe Seitei captures the quiet transformation that snowfall brings to the city, muffling the usual bustle and reducing the urban landscape to shapes of white, gray, and ink black. The Sakurada area, with its broad moat, stone walls, and mature pines, offered a particularly striking canvas for winter scenes. Seitei's print on [washi](/glossary/washi) paper, with ink and color layered through multiple impressions, gives the snow a luminous weight that feels both cold to the eye and warm to the touch.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Snow at Sakurada was created by Watanabe Seitei (渡辺省亭) in 1920s.
Snow at Sakurada depicts snow scenes.
Snow at Sakurada measures 25 × 18.3 cm (Oban format).
