Snow Valley of Mount Hakuba (Translation)
白馬の雪溪 昭和七年 (Primary Title)
Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水, Japanese, 1883 - 1957 (Artist)
Watanabe Shōzaburō 渡邊庄三郎, Japanese, 1885 - 1962 (Publisher)
Mount Hakuba, known as the Japan Alps, is located in Nagano Prefecture of central Japan. Its two-mile-long (3.5 km) mountainous valley is named Snow Valley for the heavy snow that remains unmelted throughout the year. In this print, Hasui depicted a silvery valley where travelers are carrying goods, walking with canes along the snow-covered path with steep slopes rising on both sides. Even on sunny days in July when flowers are blooming, the weather can change dramatically here and the sky, mountains, and valley all disappear in whiteness.
Showa period (1926-1989)
巴水 Hasui
Artist's seal; Publisher's seal Watanabe Shōzaburō
白馬の雪溪 昭和七年夏作
René and Carolyn Balcer Collection
Brown, Kendall. Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2014.
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