https://github.com/fitzwilliammuseum/fitz-snow-country

Japanese artists have long responded to an altered world of frozen forms, stilled by a blanket of snow. In woodcuts they used blank paper to convey the purifying beauty of snow in a transformed landscape where even ‘the depths of the night became white’.
https://github.com/fitzwilliammuseum/fitz-snow-country

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Japanese artists have long responded to an altered world of frozen forms, stilled by a blanket of snow. In woodcuts they used blank paper to convey the purifying beauty of snow in a transformed landscape where even ‘the depths of the night became white’.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fitzwilliammuseum/fitz-snow-country
• Owner: FitzwilliamMuseum
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2021-07-01T08:55:03.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-08-15T13:12:29.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-12T22:37:45.491Z (9 months ago)
• Topics: jekyll
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: https://snowcountry.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
• Size: 9.04 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Snow Country

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This repository holds the code and content for the Fitzwilliam Museum's Snow Country Japanese Prints exhibition:

Japanese artists have long responded to an altered world of frozen forms, stilled by a blanket of snow. In woodcuts they used blank paper to convey the purifying beauty of snow in a transformed landscape where even ‘the depths of the night became white’.

## To run locally

* Install Jekyll on your machine following these [instructions](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/)

* Install Git on your machine following these [instructions](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git)

* Clone the code for this repository:  

   `git clone https://github.com/FitzwilliamMuseum/fitz-snow-country.git`

* Install the gems:  

   `bundle install`

* Change to the directory and then run this command in terminal:  

 `bundle exec jekyll serve`

## Credits

Website by [@portableant](https://github.com/portableant)

[![ORCiD](https://img.shields.io/badge/ORCiD-0000--0002--0246--2335-green.svg)](http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0246-2335).

## License

GPL V3 for code, CC-BY-NC-SA-ND for content (text and images) unless stated otherwise.

## Contributing guidelines

If you want to contribute fixes to this site, you are very welcome to do so. To do this, either add a [bug report under issues](https://github.com/FitzwilliamMuseum/fitz-snow-country/issues) or fork the repository and create a new branch for proposed fixes and then submit a pull request.