In November there will be the exhibition ‘Snow Country: Japanese Winter Landscapes’ in the Nihon no hanga museum in Amsterdam. The Nihon no hanga museum is a private museum founded by its director Elise Wessels. It is home to one of the most precious collections of Japanese woodblock prints in the world and holds two exhibitions each year. It is one of the foremost opportunities available to discover and see Japanese woodblock prints.
This year’s November exhibition consists of 20th century prints that display Japanese winter landscapes. The website of the museum can be found at www.nihon-no-hanga.nl.
If one is enthusiastic about Japanese snow prints, one can search our current collection for snow by visiting this page. Among the prints there you will find a later edition of Spring Snow at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto by Kawase Hasui, one of the designs present at the exhibition. Also present might be a print by Kitano Tsunetomi, of which we currently have another snow print on offer, The Heroine Umekawa in Meido No Hiyaku, this time a first edition. Finally, one of our most popular prints is a snow scene as well, Takeji Asano’s Snow in Kamigamo Shrine, Kyoto.
Perhaps soon we will be fellow visitors at the Nihon no hanga exhibition, as we are sure to visit ourselves and would strongly recommend any lover of Japanese woodblock prints to visit as well.