
Rainy Long Journey
- Date:
- 2015
- Medium:
- Archival Pigment Print
- Image courtesy of
- Artsy
Description
This image is not a Japanese print — it's a photograph (or digital composite) of a wet, empty rural road receding toward the horizon under a dark, clouded sky with a large crescent moon, flanked by plowed/planted fields and a utility pole. There's no woodblock printmaking technique, ukiyo-e style, or Japanese subject matter visible at all; it reads as a modern photographic landscape image, likely American Midwest in character (paved road with center line, row-cropped fields).
Given the title "Rainy Long Journey," artist "Kazz Morishita," and medium "Archival Pigment Print," this is almost certainly a contemporary fine-art photograph (archival pigment prints are inkjet photographic prints, not woodblock prints) that's been mismatched into a Japanese-woodblock-print catalog record. I don't want to write a description implying this is a ukiyo-e/hanga piece when it isn't — that would misrepresent the object.
Flagging this rather than writing the description — want me to check whether this record belongs in a different table/category, or is this a one-off bad file?
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Shōno: Driving Rain (Shōno hakuu), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tōkaidō or Great Tōkaidō
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Omiya in Rain (Ame no Omiya)
Ame no Omiya
1930
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Evening Shower at Teradomari (Teradomari no yau), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series (Tabi miyage dai nishu)"
Teradomari no yau
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Color woodblock print; oban
Frequently Asked Questions
Rainy Long Journey was created by Kazz Morishita (森下和彦) in 2015.
Rainy Long Journey depicts rain and travel scenes.



