Rainy Night at Maekawa — 相州前川の雨

This impression of Rainy Night at Maekawa (相州前川の雨) presents the Sagami Province river scene in nocturnal rain, a subject Hasui returned to across multiple printings over the years. Variations between impressions of this title can include shifts in the depth of the sky gradation, the intensity of rain lines, and the warmth or coolness of lantern-light passages. In the shin-hanga production model, the carver and printer worked to Hasui's original design, but successive printings naturally introduced minor differences as blocks wore and pigment batches varied. The night rain subject required precise registration across the indigo sky block, the rain-line block, and the color blocks establishing the warm tones of artificial light — a technically demanding combination that distinguishes Hasui's more ambitious atmospheric prints from simpler daylight landscapes.