Snowy Morning — 雪の朝
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$500–$4,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Hayashi's Paris-trained Fauvist style gives his work cross-cultural appeal. His death during WWII at 50 limits available works.
Fresh snowfall blankets a quiet morning scene in this [oban](/glossary/oban) print whose Japanese title, Yuki no Asa, names the specific combination of snow and early daylight that transforms ordinary landscapes into hushed, luminous spaces. Waichi Hayashi captures the way new snow simplifies the visible world—covering textures, rounding edges, converting complex surfaces into smooth white planes that reflect ambient light. The morning hour adds a blue-gray undertone to the shadows, and whatever structures or trees appear beneath the snow become ghostly presences, their familiar forms made strange by their white coating. Silence practically radiates from the composition.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Snowy Morning — 雪の朝 was created by Waichi Hayashi (林和一).
Snowy Morning — 雪の朝 depicts snow scenes.
