Unknown, snow scene
by Ohno Bakufu
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Typical Price
$1,000–$8,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: The 'Great Japanese Fish' series is his signature work and most collected. Individual fish prints vary in desirability. Complete sets are rare.
Description
"Unknown, Snow Scene" captures one of Japan's most evocative seasonal subjects: the landscape under snow, its familiar forms transformed by the white overlay that both reveals and conceals, simplifying the visual world into soft masses and sharp shadows. Without documentation of the specific location, the print invites interpretation as a meditation on winter itself — its stillness, its silence, its transformation of the ordinary. Bakufu's handling of snow, which requires strategic use of unpainted white paper, is characteristic of the shin-hanga approach to winter subjects.
More Prints by Ohno Bakufu
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
Unknown, snow scene was created by Ohno Bakufu (大野麦風).
Unknown, snow scene depicts snow scenes.