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.
Mount Fuji in Rain (Ame no Fuji), undated, depicts Japan's sacred volcano obscured and softened by rainfall — the rain's gray curtain reducing the sharp silhouette to a soft presence behind moisture-laden air, the mountain's lower slopes disappearing into clouds while only the upper cone remains faintly visible. The rain treatment of Fuji is among the most atmospheric and tonally challenging in Hasui's Fuji catalog: the mountain's characteristic clarity dissolved into a gray diffusion, the surrounding landscape wet and muted. The [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) sky gradations in this composition capture the way rain light saturates the atmosphere around the mountain.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
c. 1830/35
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)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Mt. Fuji in Rain (Ame no Fuji) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in n.d..
Mt. Fuji in Rain (Ame no Fuji) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Mt. Fuji in Rain (Ame no Fuji) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (n.d.).
Mt. Fuji in Rain (Ame no Fuji) depicts mount fuji and rain, set at Mount Fuji.
