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
Description
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 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.
More Prints by Watanabe Seitei
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
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Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
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Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
1932
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Frequently Asked Questions
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).