la pluie de mercredi

"Wednesday's rain" departs from Kasai's more abstracting numbered titles by anchoring the print to a specific, ordinary day. The effect is to frame rainfall as observed event rather than serial subject — a single instance of weather rather than a position within a sequence. Compositionally, prints of this type tend to rely on the vocabulary of his broader rain corpus: vertical or lightly angled rain strokes set against bokashi grounds whose tonal range establishes the time of day and the density of the precipitation. The diaristic title connects loosely to the longer meditative serial works (la prière, la pluie de nuit) by suggesting that the discipline of attention to weather is itself the subject of the practice. The French formulation is consistent throughout Kasai's career, a residue of his post-1978 study in France that has remained unbroken through subsequent decades of work.