Evening Rain at a Lakeside Tearoom
by Kawase Hasui
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
- Image courtesy of
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
Rain was one of Hasui's most technically demanding and celebrated subjects, requiring the printer to achieve wet, misted surfaces through layered grey wash and fine diagonal key-block lines suggesting falling rain. This impression, the sixth catalogued variant of the Lakeside Tearoom composition, depicts a traditional thatched or tiled tearoom beside a lake at evening during rainfall. The tearoom's overhanging eaves, the dark surface of the lake receiving rain, and the misty middle distance would be composed with the horizontal registers Hasui typically employed in his rain landscapes. Interior lamplight from the tearoom providing a warm anchor against the grey-blue exterior is a compositional element Hasui used to create tonal contrast in his nocturnal rain prints.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Evening Rain at a Lakeside Tearoom was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水).
Evening Rain at a Lakeside Tearoom depicts landscapes.