AMEAGARI (after the rain)
Description
"Ameagari" — after the rain — captures the distinctive quality of a traditional Japanese street in the minutes following rainfall: the wet surfaces reflecting sky and building, the saturated colors of timber and tile, the particular clarity of air washed clean. Nishijima renders post-rain scenes with a mastery of reflection and wet-surface texture that demonstrates his sensitivity to weather as a compositional element. The brief window after rain, before surfaces dry and the ordinary palette reasserts itself, produces exactly the conditions that his precise, luminous printmaking style is best suited to record.
More Prints by Katsuyuki Nishijima
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
Frequently Asked Questions
AMEAGARI (after the rain) was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
AMEAGARI (after the rain) depicts rain.