HAREMA (Interval of Clear Weather)
Description
"Harema" — an interval of clear weather within a prolonged rainy or cloudy period — captures the brief, precious clarity that breaks through an overcast season. Nishijima renders a traditional townscape in the specific quality of light that harema produces: the sudden sharpness of illumination after grey days, the way familiar facades become newly vivid when actual sunlight returns. This sensitivity to meteorological nuance — treating not just seasons but specific weather events as compositional subjects — distinguishes Nishijima's approach to landscape from more general seasonal notation.
More Prints by Katsuyuki Nishijima
More Urban Scenes Prints
A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Kiyonaga's Pipe (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Kiyonaga no kiseru)
Woodblock print
View of Kabuki Theater from Matsuya (Ginza Matsuya yori Kabukiza), no. 3 from the series "Pictures of Ginza, First Series (Gashu Ginza dai isshu)"
1928
Color lithograph
Distant View of Mitsukoshi Movie Theater in Shinjuku from the Sixth Floor of Hoteiya (Hoteiya rokkai kara Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Musashi no kan enbo zu), no. 1 from the series "Scenery of Shinjuku (Gashu Shinjuku fukei)"
1930
Color lithograph
Spring Dusk at the Tōshō Shrine in Ueno
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Frequently Asked Questions
HAREMA (Interval of Clear Weather) was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
HAREMA (Interval of Clear Weather) depicts urban scenes, architecture, and rain.