Key value factors: Edition order (first Watanabe/Doi printing vs. posthumous reprints) is crucial. Snow scenes, night views, and bijin-ga typically command premiums. Publisher seals and artist signatures authenticate first editions.
Snow blankets the grounds of Shitennoji temple in Osaka — here rendered as Tenno-ji — in this winter landscape by Yuhan Ito, the stone lanterns and wooden halls half-buried in white. Snow scenes were a staple of shin-hanga printmaking precisely because the medium could render the gradations of a snow-covered landscape — from stark white to deep shadow — with unusual subtlety. Ito uses the white expanse to impose silence on the composition, turning the ancient urban temple into something austere and remote.
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.
Tenno-Ji in the Sno was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Tenno-Ji in the Sno depicts snow scenes, temples & shrines, and winter.
