rainy city street
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$400–$3,000. Common subjects: $400–$1,000. Key value factors: Okuyama's prints are relatively affordable. Bold, well-preserved examples are most valued.
"Rainy City Street" captures the distinctively Japanese experience of urban rain — the crowded umbrellas, the reflective wet pavement, the softening of the city's hard edges by falling water — rendered in Okuyama's sosaku-hanga approach. Rain transformed the Japanese city into a more atmospheric, abstracted subject: familiar streets became compositions of reflections and blurred forms, the boundaries between buildings and sky dissolved by the curtain of rain. Okuyama's handling of urban rain shows his range beyond landscape into the atmospheric qualities of city life.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
rainy city street was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
rainy city street depicts urban scenes and rain.
