Snow in Shinagawa

This meisho-e turns from theatrical subjects to landscape and weather, depicting Shinagawa — historically the first post-station on the Tokaido out of Edo and a coastal district of long-standing pictorial reputation — under snowfall. Snow scenes (yukei-zu) in shin-hanga draw on a tradition reaching back through Hiroshige and Hokusai, and the genre remained productive for the early twentieth-century revival that Yamamura participated in alongside Kawase Hasui and Hiroshi Yoshida. The composition likely uses the white of the unprinted washi as the snow itself, with the carver leaving substantial areas free of color and the printer applying delicate gray and indigo bokashi gradations to suggest sky, water, and shadow. Snow falling across the image is typically achieved through overprinting small white pigment dots from a separate block. The print represents an aspect of Yamamura's range less often remarked upon than his yakusha-e: his engagement with the meisho-e tradition that defined the broader shin-hanga project.