Snow Play
雪遊び
- Date:
- c. 1906
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
Description
Snow Play (Yuki asobi), printed around 1906, shows children engaged with freshly fallen snow, likely building snow figures, throwing snowballs, or simply reveling in the transformed landscape. Shoun's color woodblock uses the white of bare paper to represent snow, the children's colored clothing and flushed faces standing out against the monochrome ground. The scene captures the particular excitement that snow brings to children, the ordinary world made strange and new by a layer of white. Small footprints, scattered snowballs, and bundled-up figures create a composition alive with the kinetic energy of play in cold weather.
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More Snow Scenes Prints
Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
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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)"
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Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
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Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
1932
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Frequently Asked Questions
Snow Play (雪遊び) was created by Yamamoto Shoun (山本昇雲) in c. 1906.
Snow Play depicts snow scenes.