YUGUMO (Evening Clouds)
Description
"Yugumo" — evening clouds — depicts the cloud formations that gather in the late afternoon and early evening, backlit by the setting sun into dramatic shapes of purple and orange. Nishijima renders these evening clouds in relation to the architectural silhouettes of traditional buildings below: the dynamic sky contrasted against the static rooflines, the transient atmospheric event set against the enduring built forms. His evening cloud subjects develop the tension between permanence and change that runs through all his atmospheric studies.
More Prints by Katsuyuki Nishijima
More Night Scenes Prints
Evening in East Africa
Woodblock print
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
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Moon at Nakanoshima, Sapporo (Sapporo Nakanoshima no yuzuki), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen)"
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Frequently Asked Questions
YUGUMO (Evening Clouds) was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
YUGUMO (Evening Clouds) depicts night scenes.