Snow on the Sumida River
Original title
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- JP2921
- Credit
- Henry L. Phillips Collection, Bequest of Henry L. Phillips, 1939
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1849. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- Snow covers the banks and small islands of the Sumida River in Edo. A covered boat is poled across the blue water between them, a pavilion with a white roof stands on the right, and the pale sky deepens to blue at the top.
- Image
- 1600 × 1092
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009046
coldlibrary.com/g/009046 - Credit line
- Katsushika Hokusai, Snow on the Sumida River, c. 1833. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009046
The snow print from the same Snow, Moon and Flowers series as the Yodo moon on this wall. Hokusai lets the snow sit in thick, rounded masses on every bank and branch, almost like cotton, against a hard blue river. Put the two side by side and you can see one artist tuning the same palette for cold and for warmth.
