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Winter Prints (377)

Winter scenes in Japanese woodblock prints beyond snow alone — including bare branches, frozen streams, cold moonlight, figures bundled against the chill, and the stark, contemplative beauty of the Japanese winter landscape.

Artists Known for Winter

Akiba, from the series "Three Evenings at Spots Famous for Snow Viewing (Meisho yukimi sanseki)" by Katsukawa Shunchō

Akiba, from the series "Three Evenings at Spots Famous for Snow Viewing (Meisho yukimi sanseki)"

c. 1780/1801

Color woodblock print; chuban

Flowers, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)" by Katsukawa Shunchō

Flowers, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)"

c. 1784/85

Color woodblock print; oban

Snowy Landscape with Strollers by Kitao Masayoshi

Snowy Landscape with Strollers

1790s

Color woodblock print

Town Snow Scene by Katsuhira Tokushi

Town Snow Scene

Shōwa period

Color woodblock print (self-carved and self-printed)

Market in the Snowy Country by Katsuhira Tokushi

Market in the Snowy Country

雪國の市場

Shōwa period

Color woodblock print

Cherry Snow by Helen Hyde

Cherry Snow

1906

Color etching on cream Japanese paper

Bank of Japan in Snow from Eitaibashi Bridge — 永代橋際日本銀行の雪 by Inoue Yasuji

Bank of Japan in Snow from Eitaibashi Bridge — 永代橋際日本銀行の雪

Chizuka no Fumi no Bosetsu (The Evening Snow of a Thousand Bundles of Love-Letters), the Lovers Ohatsu and Tokubei, from the series "Sugata Hakkei (Eight Views of Lovers)" by Ippitsusai Buncho

Chizuka no Fumi no Bosetsu (The Evening Snow of a Thousand Bundles of Love-Letters), the Lovers Ohatsu and Tokubei, from the series "Sugata Hakkei (Eight Views of Lovers)"

c. 1772

Color woodblock print; chuban

Onoe Kikugorō I as Izumi no Saburō in the Play Snowflakes: Plum Blossoms Kaomise by Ippitsusai Buncho

Onoe Kikugorō I as Izumi no Saburō in the Play Snowflakes: Plum Blossoms Kaomise

1769

color woodblock print

Getting dark in Snow (Kani, Near Itabashi) — 雪に暮る(板橋附近 可児) by Ishiwata Koitsu

Getting dark in Snow (Kani, Near Itabashi) — 雪に暮る(板橋附近 可児)

Snow at a Shrine (Suizenji in Kumamoto) — 社頭の雪(熊本水前寺) by Ishiwata Koitsu

Snow at a Shrine (Suizenji in Kumamoto) — 社頭の雪(熊本水前寺)

Couple Sharing an Umbrella Under the Snow by Isoda Koryūsai

Couple Sharing an Umbrella Under the Snow

c. 1771

Color woodblock print; hashira-e

Five Young Boys Rolling a Large Snowball by Isoda Koryūsai

Five Young Boys Rolling a Large Snowball

c. 1772

Color woodblock print; chuban

Puppies in the Snow by Isoda Koryūsai

Puppies in the Snow

c. 1773

Color woodblock print; chuban

Karauta of the Ogiya in Evening Snow (Ogiya Karauta bosetsu), from the series "Eight Views of Famous Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro meifu hakkei)" by Isoda Koryūsai

Karauta of the Ogiya in Evening Snow (Ogiya Karauta bosetsu), from the series "Eight Views of Famous Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro meifu hakkei)"

c. 1773/75

Color woodblock print; chuban

Young Man with Umbrella Knocking on Gate in Snow by Isoda Koryūsai

Young Man with Umbrella Knocking on Gate in Snow

c. 1774

Color woodblock print; hashira-e

Crow and snow by Ohara Koson

Crow and snow

Geese flying in snow by Ohara Koson

Geese flying in snow

After Snow at Mt Asama by Tadashige Nishida

After Snow at Mt Asama

Matsuchi Hill after Snowfall by Torii Kiyonaga

Matsuchi Hill after Snowfall

c. 1785

Color woodblock print; oban diptych

Snow Landscape by Mochizuki Gyokusen

Snow Landscape

雪景山水図

1879

Hanging scroll; ink on silk

Pines in Snow (Yukimatsu) by Yamamoto Shunkyo

Pines in Snow (Yukimatsu)

雪松図

circa 1922

Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Snow, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)" by Katsukawa Shunchō

Snow, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)"

c. 1784/85

Color woodblock print; oban

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Yuki Onna (the Snow Woman) in a dance interlude in scene two of the Joruri "Courtesan's Rouge on a Snow White Face (Oyama Beni Yuki no Sugao)" from the play "Cotton Wadding of Izu Protecting the Matrimonial Chrysanthemums (Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata)," performed at the Ichimura Theater from the first day of the eleventh month by Katsukawa Shunshō

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Yuki Onna (the Snow Woman) in a dance interlude in scene two of the Joruri "Courtesan's Rouge on a Snow White Face (Oyama Beni Yuki no Sugao)" from the play "Cotton Wadding of Izu Protecting the Matrimonial Chrysanthemums (Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata)," performed at the Ichimura Theater from the first day of the eleventh month

c. 1770

Color woodblock print; center sheet of hosoban triptych

Clearing after a Snowfall at the Kannon Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kannon no yukibare), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)" by Kawase Hasui

Clearing after a Snowfall at the Kannon Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kannon no yukibare), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)"

1926

Color woodblock print; oban

Evening Snow at Sanjūgen Canal (Sanjūgenbori no bosetsu), from the unfinished series Twelve Months of Tokyo (Tōkyō jūnikagetsu) by Kawase Hasui

Evening Snow at Sanjūgen Canal (Sanjūgenbori no bosetsu), from the unfinished series Twelve Months of Tokyo (Tōkyō jūnikagetsu)

1920

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Spring Snow at Hamacho Park in Nihonbashi (Nihonbashi-ku Hamacho koen shunsetsu) from the series "One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga)" by Kishio Koizumi

Spring Snow at Hamacho Park in Nihonbashi (Nihonbashi-ku Hamacho koen shunsetsu) from the series "One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga)"

1940

Color woodblock print; oban

An Eagle in a Snowstorm by Ohara Koson

An Eagle in a Snowstorm

Geese in Snow by Ohara Koson

Geese in Snow

Gogo no Yuki (Afternoon Snow) by Tatsuo Kawashima

Gogo no Yuki (Afternoon Snow)

Nobleman and court lady boating at night near a snow-covered shore by Totoya Hokkei

Nobleman and court lady boating at night near a snow-covered shore

1826

Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono

Pheasant on a Snow-Covered Pine Tree by Utagawa Hiroshige

Pheasant on a Snow-Covered Pine Tree

mid–1830s

Color woodblock print; chu-tanzaku

Evening Snow (Bo-setsu), from the series, "Eight Figural Views" (Sugata Hakkei) by Utagawa Kunisada

Evening Snow (Bo-setsu), from the series, "Eight Figural Views" (Sugata Hakkei)

ca. 1850

Polychrome woodblock print

Young woman looking at bamboo in snow by Okumura Toshinobu

Young woman looking at bamboo in snow

1950s

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Actor Arashi Rikan as Miyamoto Musashi, Journeying through the Snow with his Boy Attendant by Utagawa Kunihiro

Actor Arashi Rikan as Miyamoto Musashi, Journeying through the Snow with his Boy Attendant

c. 1815-1830

Color woodblock print (yakusha-e)

Two Deer by Snowy Pines by Mori Kansai

Two Deer by Snowy Pines

雪松双鹿図

late 19th century

Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Forty-Eight Famous Views of Tokyo: Asakusa Kanzeon Temple in the Snow by Shōsai Ikkei

Forty-Eight Famous Views of Tokyo: Asakusa Kanzeon Temple in the Snow

東京名所四十八景 浅草観世音雪中

c. 1871

Color woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Unknown- Snow and Bijin by Takahashi Shotei

Unknown- Snow and Bijin

Moon, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)" by Katsukawa Shunchō

Moon, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)"

c. 1784/85

Color woodblock print; oban

Snowy Landscape by Kubo Shunman

Snowy Landscape

19th century

Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

Mandarin Ducks in Snow by Ohara Koson

Mandarin Ducks in Snow

Maiko (Light Snow) — 舞妓(小雪) by Miyamoto Shufu

Maiko (Light Snow) — 舞妓(小雪)

Ferry Landing in Snow (Yuki no watashiba) by Uehara Konen

Ferry Landing in Snow (Yuki no watashiba)

雪の渡し場

c. 1900-1910

Color woodblock print

Snow Overnight at Shinobugaoka by Keisai Eisen

Snow Overnight at Shinobugaoka

Snow on the Way Back from the Public Bath by Suzuki Harunobu

Snow on the Way Back from the Public Bath

c. 1766/67

Color woodblock print; chuban

Snow Maiden by Yamakawa Shuho

Snow Maiden

Snowy Landscape by Yamada Keichū

Snowy Landscape

雪景色

before 1935

Painting reproduction; ink and color on silk or paper

Courtesan on Parade in Falling Snow by Suzuki Harunobu

Courtesan on Parade in Falling Snow

c. 1765

Color woodblock print; hashira-e

Evening Snow on a Floss Shaper (Nurioke no bosetsu), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)" by Suzuki Harunobu

Evening Snow on a Floss Shaper (Nurioke no bosetsu), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"

c. 1766

Color woodblock print; chuban

Lovers Beneath an Umbrella in the Snow by Suzuki Harunobu

Lovers Beneath an Umbrella in the Snow

c. 1767

Color woodblock print; chuban

Making a Giant Snowball by Suzuki Harunobu

Making a Giant Snowball

c. 1767

Color woodblock print; chuban

Ferry in Snow by Takahashi Shotei

Ferry in Snow

Looking at Falling Snow by Takehisa Yumeji

Looking at Falling Snow

"Tsu": Narihira in the Snow at Ono, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)" by Katsukawa Shunshō

"Tsu": Narihira in the Snow at Ono, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

c. 1772/73

Color woodblock print; koban

Monkey Bridge in snow by Kishio Koizumi

Monkey Bridge in snow

The Snow-Clogged Geta by Suzuki Harunobu

The Snow-Clogged Geta

c. 1767/68

Color woodblock print; chuban

A Mandarin Duck on a Snowy Bank by Utagawa Hiroshige

A Mandarin Duck on a Snowy Bank

1830s

Color woodblock print; ko-tanzaku

Snow at Okuramae (Okuramae no yuki), from the series Edo meisho dōke zukushi (Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo) by Utagawa Hirokage

Snow at Okuramae (Okuramae no yuki), from the series Edo meisho dōke zukushi (Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo)

御蔵前の雪 — 江戸名所道化尽

1859

Color woodblock print (nishiki-e)

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as a Boy Blowing on His Hands beside a Large Snowball, in the Play Nigiwai Genji Hana Saku Kado, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1793 by Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as a Boy Blowing on His Hands beside a Large Snowball, in the Play Nigiwai Genji Hana Saku Kado, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1793

c. 1793

Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych

Bijin in Snow by Sentaro Iwata

Bijin in Snow

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Frequently Asked Questions

Winter scenes in Japanese woodblock prints beyond snow alone — including bare branches, frozen streams, cold moonlight, figures bundled against the chill, and the stark, contemplative beauty of the Japanese winter landscape.

Utagawa Hiroshige, Suzuki Harunobu, and Saito Kiyoshi are among the artists most associated with winter in our collection. Browse the full list of artists who explored this subject above.

Hanga currently catalogues 377 prints tagged with winter, spanning ukiyo-e, shin-hanga, and sōsaku-hanga traditions where applicable.