by Ansei Uchima
$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Uchima's luminous landscape prints appeal to collectors of both Japanese prints and modern American art.
Tranquil Rain (1963) is a color woodblock print that pairs two words — tranquil and rain — that together define a specific atmospheric condition: not the violence of a storm or the dreariness of persistent drizzle, but a gentle, steady rainfall that quiets the landscape and turns surfaces reflective. This kind of rain has a particular sound (soft, continuous, without thunder) and a particular light (gray, even, shadowless) that Uchima translates into the layered transparency of his color woodblock printing. Each pass of the [baren](/glossary/baren) over inked block and dampened paper adds another layer of moisture to the image, the physical process of printing mirroring the subject's accumulative quality.
1962
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
c. 1833-36
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Ame no Omiya
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Tranquil Rain was created by Ansei Uchima (内間安瑆) in 1963.
Tranquil Rain depicts rain.
