{"id":29086,"date":"2026-01-05T16:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=29086"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:15:41","slug":"thirteen-views-of-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2026\/01\/05\/thirteen-views-of-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirteen views of snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lingering Snow at Asukayama, from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo (1837\u201338) by Utagawa Hiroshige.<\/em><\/p>\n

We’ve had one of our mild falls of snow this week, hence the subject. Snow is a very common theme in Japanese prints, a part of the cultural interest in all the different aspects of the yearly seasons. There are many more examples out there.<\/p>\n

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Mountains and Rivers of Kiso (1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Plovers Flying Across a River above Snow-Laden Reeds, from the series Worlds of Things (1909\u201310) by Kamisaka Sekka.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Snowy Ravine at Harinoki, from the series Twelve Scenes in the Japan Alps (1926) by Hiroshi Yoshida.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Snow at Shiba Park, Tokyo (1930) by Kawase Hasui.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mt Fuji after the Snow (1932) by Kawase Hasui.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Miyajima in Snow (1934) by Tsuchiya Koitsu.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Snow at Kofukuji Temple (1947) by Takeji Asano.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sacred Bridge at Nikko (1949) by Okuyama Gihachiro.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Snow at Matsushima (1954) by Kasamatsu Shiro.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yasaka in Snow (undated) by Katsuyuki Nishijima.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Clear Sky (1971) by Asai Kiyoshi.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Snow Village (1995) by Tanaka Ryohei.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lingering Snow at Asukayama, from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo (1837\u201338) by Utagawa Hiroshige. We’ve had one of our mild falls of snow this week, hence the subject. Snow is a very common theme in Japanese prints, a part of the cultural interest in all the different aspects of the yearly … Continue reading “Thirteen views of snow”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Thirteen views of snow","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[12361,12956,14361,12363,14362,7671,12359,13317,14363,12036,12033],"class_list":["post-29086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-asai-kiyoshi","tag-hiroshi-yoshida","tag-kamisaka-sekka","tag-kasamatsu-shiro","tag-katsuyuki-nishijima","tag-kawase-hasui","tag-okuyama-gihachiro","tag-takeji-asano","tag-tanaka-ryohei","tag-tsuchiya-koitsu","tag-utagawa-hiroshige"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7z8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}