Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
publicdomainreview.orgBig fan of the bottom right snowflake on this page: https://pdr-assets.b-cdn.net/collections/japanese-snowflake-...
Transferring each snowflake by hand with tweezers is insane, what a feat
It appears that the author of this work invented the word 雪華 (sekka); it originates in that book. Other than that, a snow crystal is just called ゆきの結晶 (yukinokesshō).
Related(?) word meaning sublimation
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%87%9D%E8%8F%AF
1828 (4 years before this book launched)
https://bunka.nii.ac.jp/heritages/detail/517539
(Sword guard)
The word doesn't appear on the sword guard itself, though, so the object doesn't attest it.