Kameyama: Clear Weather after Snow

The morning after the storm: a daimyō procession climbs the steep snow-covered approach to Kameyama castle under a clear dawn sky, the whole hillside one great white diagonal. One of the series’ celebrated snow scenes and its most austere composition — a single slope cutting the sheet corner to corner, the travelers reduced to a thin dark line upon it. The hill runs one unbroken diagonal from lower left to upper right; the procession is visible only as heads and spear tips above the drifts, and the castle pines hold the summit. After the storm, the climb remains.

Maker

Utagawa Hiroshige

Date

c. 1833–34

Medium of the original

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Rights

Cleared for print

Catalogue number

PA-00390