Good Snow
- Date:
- 1990–91
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 34.6 × 46.7 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Typical Price
$500–$8,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Hagiwara's abstract works are collected by both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
Description
Good Snow (1990–91) — the Japanese concept of "yuki" (snow) combined with the positive evaluation of "good" — renders a snowfall of the kind that is neither dangerous nor merely inconvenient but genuinely beautiful and functionally beneficial. The "good snow" of Japanese agricultural culture was deep, stable snow that protected crops through the winter and would melt gradually to water the spring fields. Hagiwara's treatment captures the quality of stillness and abundance in a heavy, settled snowfall — the snow as gift rather than hardship.
More Prints by Hideo Hagiwara
More Snow Scenes Prints
Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
Woodblock print
The Compound of the Tenman Shrine at Kameido in the Snow (Kameido Tenmangu keidai no yuki), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
1932
Woodblock print
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Good Snow was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄) in 1990–91.
Good Snow depicts snow scenes.
Good Snow measures 34.6 × 46.7 cm.