Rain
- Date:
- October 1954
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 27.9 × 41.9 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: As a member of the Yoshida printmaking dynasty, Chizuko's work benefits from family name recognition. Abstract nature prints are most collected.
Dated October 1954, Rain is a woodblock print in ink and color on paper that takes precipitation as both its subject and its sensory touchstone. Chizuko Yoshida approaches rain not as a weather event to be depicted but as a perceptual condition that transforms how the world looks and feels. Rain blurs edges, darkens surfaces, creates vertical streaks across the visual field, and turns solid ground into a reflective mirror. The woodblock medium can approximate all of these effects through selective inking, graduated pressure, and the way wet pigment interacts with absorbent [washi](/glossary/washi) paper. Chizuko's treatment of rain connects her to a centuries-long Japanese tradition of rain imagery in prints, from Hiroshige's famous downpours to Hasui's quiet drizzles, while her abstract approach reframes the subject as pure sensation.
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Rain was created by Chizuko Yoshida (吉田千鶴子) in October 1954.
Rain depicts rain.
Rain measures 27.9 × 41.9 cm.
