Fantasy in White (1) (Shiro no genso [1])

Fantasy in White (1) — "Shiro no genso [1]" — from 1962 with edition 10/50 is among Hagiwara's most controlled early abstract compositions, the white ground worked through carved surface texture to create an image that was simultaneously empty and saturated with implied depth. The careful edition control (10/50) marks this as a significant collector's print rather than a broadly distributed work, and the early 1960s date situates it in the period when Hagiwara was establishing his international reputation through the major print biennales. White as a color of maximum possibility, not absence.