Two children with a snowman and a girl with a snow rabbit

A winter genre scene depicting Korean children at play: two building a snowman, a third girl shaping a yuki-usagi or snow rabbit, the small mounded form traditionally given leaf ears and berry eyes. Snow scenes in mokuhanga typically leave large fields of unprinted [washi](/glossary/washi) to register as snow, with [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) reserved for the sky and the modeled shadows beneath drifts. The figures would be defined by a clean keyblock and a small number of color blocks for padded winter clothing — likely the quilted hanbok jackets and bright sashes Hiyoshi observed in Kyongsong. The composition belongs to a long East Asian tradition of children-in-snow imagery, but Hiyoshi's version is rooted in his project of recording specifically Korean customs of dress and play. It sits alongside his market and landscape prints as part of the documentary record he assembled across thirty-six years on the peninsula.