Akashi-cho after Rain (Akashi-cho no ugo), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)"
by Kawase Hasui
by Kawase Hasui
A rain scene from the Twenty Views of Tokyo series combines the series' collector prestige with Hasui's second-most desirable atmospheric effect. Rain scenes by Hasui are prized for their bokashi gradation technique — the graduated ink wash creating misty, diffused light. Rainy Evening in Kyoto (a comparable rain scene, Showa era) sold for $5,800 at Sotheby's New York (2023).
Akashi-cho after Rain, from the Twenty Views of Tokyo series published in 1928, depicts the Akashi-cho district in Tsukiji — the former foreign settlement and later one of Tokyo's most progressive Meiji-era neighborhoods — after rainfall, its streets still wet and gleaming under the clearing sky. The Akashi-cho (renamed from Tsukiji's foreign settlement) was an unusual subject in Hasui's Tokyo documentation: a neighborhood of Western-influenced architecture and tree-lined streets rather than the traditional temple precincts and riverbanks of most Twenty Views subjects. The after-rain (ugo) subject captures the wet pavement's reflective quality and the freshened atmosphere of a clearing summer shower.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Akashi-cho after Rain (Akashi-cho no ugo), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)" was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1928.
Yes — Akashi-cho after Rain (Akashi-cho no ugo), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)" is part of the Twenty Views of Tokyo series by Kawase Hasui.
Akashi-cho after Rain (Akashi-cho no ugo), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)" uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print; oban.
Akashi-cho after Rain (Akashi-cho no ugo), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)" was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1928).
Akashi-cho after Rain (Akashi-cho no ugo), from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)" depicts landscapes, edo & tokyo, and rain, set at Tokyo.
