Unknown, Rainy Street Scene
- 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.
"Unknown, Rainy Street Scene" is a second urban rain composition in Okuyama's oeuvre, depicting an unidentified Japanese city street in wet weather. Without documentation of the specific location, the print stands as a study in atmospheric urban landscape: the rain-slick pavement, the softened building facades, the umbrellas and hunched figures moving through the wet. Okuyama's treatment of this atmospheric subject would have applied his careful observational approach to the challenge of rendering precipitation in woodblock print — a technical demand that required precise gradation and spatial control.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Unknown, Rainy Street Scene was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Unknown, Rainy Street Scene depicts urban scenes and rain.
