Rain Storm
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Ronin Gallery
- Image courtesy of
- Ronin Gallery
Description
This print depicts a landscape or townscape overtaken by a violent downpour, a subject with deep roots in Japanese printmaking from Hiroshige's diagonal rain compositions onward. Sekino's sōsaku-hanga approach would reinterpret the theme through personal expression rather than convention, likely using bold diagonal line-cutting to evoke driving rain and aggressive bokashi to render a turbulent sky. Areas of the composition may shift between near-abstract passages of tone and precisely cut foreground elements. The emotional directness of the subject aligns with the postwar creative print movement's emphasis on subjective response to landscape and weather as vehicles for psychological expression.
More Prints by Jun'ichiro Sekino
More Rain Prints
Rain Shower at Shо̄no, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tо̄kaidо̄ (Tо̄kaidо̄ gojusan tsugi)
1962
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Shōno: Driving Rain (Shōno hakuu), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tōkaidō or Great Tōkaidō
c. 1833-36
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Omiya in Rain (Ame no Omiya)
Ame no Omiya
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Shower at Teradomari (Teradomari no yau), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series (Tabi miyage dai nishu)"
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Rain Storm was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Rain Storm depicts rain.