Cloudy Day in Mizuki, Ibaraki Prefecture (Mizuki no komoribi)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1946
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
Cloudy Day at Mizuki in Ibaraki Prefecture, published in 1946, depicts a locality in the flat Ibaraki countryside — the agricultural and river landscape between Mito and the Pacific coast — under the soft, diffused light of an overcast day. The komoribi (overcast light or dappled light) treatment gives this composition its distinctive atmospheric quality: neither the drama of rain nor the clarity of sun, but the quiet, meditative light of a gray day that reveals the landscape's forms without harsh shadow or glare. The 1946 postwar date and the quiet agricultural subject represent Hasui's return to modest, familiar domestic subjects after the war years.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Cloudy Day in Mizuki, Ibaraki Prefecture (Mizuki no komoribi) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1946.
Cloudy Day in Mizuki, Ibaraki Prefecture (Mizuki no komoribi) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1946).
Cloudy Day in Mizuki, Ibaraki Prefecture (Mizuki no komoribi) depicts landscapes and village scenes.