After the Rain
- Date:
- 1986
- Medium:
- Color woodcut
- Image courtesy of
- Artsy
Description
Five open Japanese paper umbrellas (wagasa) — purple, blue-and-purple, red, blue, and red-and-white — stand drying in a row against the slatted wooden facade of a building, propped along a stone step, with one additional blue umbrella hung upside down higher on the wall to the right. The house has a dark tile roof and grey lattice-and-plaster walls with a round wall lamp above a paneled door. The palette is muted greys and browns for the architecture set against the saturated indigo, violet, and red rings of the umbrellas. "After the Rain," a color woodcut by Katsuyuki Nishijima, 1986.
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Frequently Asked Questions
After the Rain was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之) in 1986.
After the Rain depicts landscapes and rain.