Snow at -oka
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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
Snow at -oka (the location name partially obscured in the title) renders a snowfall over a specific Japanese place — likely a village or neighborhood whose name ends in "-oka" (hill or small rise) — in Hagiwara's direct, atmospheric style. The truncated location name gives the print an air of specificity without full geographic resolution, the snow scene grounded in a real place while remaining partially anonymous. Hagiwara's treatment of snow emphasized its transformative quality, the way it simplified and unified the landscape beneath it.
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
Snow at -oka was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄).
Snow at -oka depicts snow scenes.