Late Autumn Rain, Nanzen Temple, Kyoto (Shigure no ato (Kyoto Nanzenji))
by Kawase Hasui
by Kawase Hasui
Rain scenes are Hasui's second most desirable atmospheric category, carrying a 20–40% premium over comparable clear-weather subjects. Rainy Season, Shinagawa (1931) sold for $4,375 at Christie's Online (2020). The bokashi gradation technique used for rain effects demands superior impressions — well-preserved sky gradations add significantly to value, while faded examples lose much of their impact. Postwar lifetime editions (1946–1957) bearing the small 6mm J-seal represent authentic lifetime impressions but from the artist's final decade.
Nanzenji in Kyoto is one of the city's great Zen temples, famous for its sanmon gate, a Roman brick aqueduct running through its grounds, and the autumn maple gardens that draw crowds each November. This 1951 print captures the temple in late autumn rain — the maple colors subdued by wet weather, the stone paths glistening, the brick aqueduct arches visible through falling rain. The shigure no ato (after the autumn drizzle) title specifies the particular thin, cold rain of the late-autumn Kyoto season.
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Late Autumn Rain, Nanzen Temple, Kyoto (Shigure no ato (Kyoto Nanzenji)) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1951.
Late Autumn Rain, Nanzen Temple, Kyoto (Shigure no ato (Kyoto Nanzenji)) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Late Autumn Rain, Nanzen Temple, Kyoto (Shigure no ato (Kyoto Nanzenji)) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1951).
Late Autumn Rain, Nanzen Temple, Kyoto (Shigure no ato (Kyoto Nanzenji)) depicts temples & shrines, rain, and autumn foliage, set at Kyoto.
