A Japanese ukiyo-e woodcut print titled Monk Nichiren in Exile on Sado Island, perhaps better known in Japan as In the Snow at Tsukahara in Sado Province, from the series Illustration of Famous Monks by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, published by Iseya Rihei 1835–36.

This particular print stems from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and belongs to the Public Domain. As you can read on their web page on this piece of art —

— Kuniyoshi’s series of ten prints published in 1835–36 was an abridged biography of the life of the monk Nichiren (1222–1282), the founder of the Nichiren Buddhist sect, which is based on the worship of the Lotus Sutra. Nichiren lived in exile on Sado Island from 1271 to 1274.

This particular masterpiece of ukiyo-e printmaking creates a perfect resonance between pictorial and emotional presentation. The severe snowstorm symbolizes the hardships Nichiren underwent during his exile. The monk demonstrates his strength of spirit by persevering in his uphill struggle.

The village seen behind on the woodcut print is probably Tsukahara, the place of a historical debate in 1272 (Tsukahara-mondō) between Nichiren, 日蓮 — exiled by the government to the harsh Sado Island in the Sea of Japan off the Niigata coast because of his radical and rebellious views — and numerous priests of other Buddhist schools.